Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer

Maurice Wilkes, ISBN 0-262-23122-0 Call number QA76.17.w55 1985, MIT Press

Page 227, "For example, he (Strachey) did not like the use of the Algol word "else," which he said was ungrammatical, and he insisted that in out paper we should use "otherwise."

Page 174, "He (Aiken) thought it foolish to build a pure binary system, for which he had no time. ... He admitted that at the present time the binary system lent a certain simplicity to design, but maintained that, once we really knew how to build a decimal machine, this advantage, for what it was worth, would disappear."