Howard Aiken

Computer Science American 1900 – 1973 102 quotes

Physicist and computing pioneer who developed the Harvard Mark I, one of the first electromechanical computers.

Quotes by Howard Aiken

Joke: 'Why did the computer go to therapy? Too many unresolved variables.'

Colleague banter 1952

Key passage: 'Electronic brains will outthink human ones in speed, not soul.'

Book 1951