Quotes About Atanasoff

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

That's a big thing with an invention," Eckert later said, contrasting their machine with Atanasoff's. "You have to have a whole system that works.