[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.