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From: jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Component Specification (Was Re: software engineers)
Message-ID: <1500003@hpmwjaa.HP.COM>
Date: 12 May 89 17:27:51 GMT
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Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca.
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> As someone said, "Software will be a science when programmers stand on each
> other's shoulders instead of each other's toes." [I would be grateful if
> someone can point to the originator of this]

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
shoulders of giants.
                -- Isaac Newton

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side
with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
                -- Gerald Holton

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. Reid