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Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns
From: SHARAD@ucsvax.ucs.umass.edu (Sharad Singhai)
Subject: I hate quotations --Emerson
Keywords: smirk, quotes, computers, originally appeared in second quarter, 1993
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:20:01 PST
I saw this quote in Henry Massalin's PhD thesis. I found it
really funny.
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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was
standing on the shoulder of giants.
-- Isaac Newton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
-- Brian K. Reed
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