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"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) computer pioneer (lemm.ee)

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"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary engineer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - As quoted in A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus (1988) by Eric A. Weiss, page 404

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

"If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”

Translation of metaphor to 2,000 years ago:

Levant (Middle East), Bible verse Luke 17:21: "nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst."

In other words, people don't see what is in front of them. 2,000 year old Levant lesson / teaching to children.