Howard Aiken's Quotes

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.