> There is a famous line which I wish I knew who said that to paraphrase
> becomes: “In science we stand on the shoulders of the great people that
> came before us, but in computer science we try to step on their toes.”
>

Brian Reid's gloss on Isaac Newton:
http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/131870_in-computer-science-we-stand-on-each-others-feet-brian-k.html