[henrik_w]

The "On the shoulder of giants"-quote made me think of this:

"It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets." -Alan Cooper

[elihu]

The version I'm familiar with, though I don't know the original source, is "if we have seen less far than other men, it is because we have stood in the footprints of giants."

[timthorn]

It's from Newton, who it is thought was aiming a barb at Hooke.

[BitwiseFool]

There's so much about programming that I just don't know because someone else abstracted it away from my responsibility.

[11thEarlOfMar]

If you haven't, learn to program in assembly. Everything else is built on top of that.

[thomasahle]

If you look, you'll find that there're plenty of levels below assembly.

[IgorPartola]

Let me get my magnetized needle.