Forrester persuaded the Office of Naval Research to fund his real-time, electronic digital offering, saying, “the potential of the digital computer was so great and the benefits derived from its use so immense that the costs involved, no matter how great, were warranted.”

“I do not think anyone else would have developed core storage, had Forrester not done it. The people in other organizations who said they were doing it seemed too dilatory. The history of computer memory would probably have been that of transistor storage followed directly after storage tubes.” —George Valley

“Magnetic core memory was a classic story of luck and pluck: a true epic out of the nineteenth century. The cores developed while I watched, and like a boy reading a Horatio Alger novel, I was inspired.” —George Valley