Quote by Howard Aiken

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

Comment

As quoted in Portraits in Silicon (1987) by Robert Slater.

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

Source

Book: Portraits in Silicon