A biography for Howard Aikenhasn’t been written yet.
“There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.”
“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
“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.”