"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
— Howard H. Aiken

January 1, 1970

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Variant: 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, p. 404