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At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to sol

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. – Howard Aiken

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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. – Howard Aiken

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Dont worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, youll have to ram them down peoples throats. – Howard Aiken

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Theres my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. – Howard Aiken

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Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the conspicuously industrious blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. – Jo Ann Davis

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The real story of Facebook is just that weve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. – Mark Zuckerberg

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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. Thats where we come in; were computer professionals. We cause accidents. – Nathaniel Borenstein

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I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. Its like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. – Louis C. K.

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