James H. Wilkinson Quote

Very belatedly in 1947, Darwin [Sir Charles Darwin, great-grandson of the famous Charles Darwin] agreed to set up a very small electronics group [...] It was not easy to have the imagination to foresee that computers were to become one of the most important developments of the century.

Oral history interview by John C. Nash, SIAM History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Project, 13 July 1984