If I Have Not Seen As Far As Others, It Is Because Giants Were Standing On My Shoulders.

“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”

— Hal Abelson (also quoted in Vortex dynamics in thin films of amorphous Mo77Ge23, 1998, p. 6)

Classic Punchlines - a series

"No! Are you sure this is where he fell in?"

“I…had begun to get the uncanny hunch that I could spend the rest of my life—no matter how long—looking back on what I’d already lived. No more new material, just a matter of reviewing the tape. I had already been given so much, I thought; it would take at least twice as long to sort it out.”

— Mike Powell