Tanford gave great credit to the "giants upon whose shoulders he stood".
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In the book, Bob Young of Red Hat supports the free software movement by saying that it enables people to stand on the shoulders of giants.
In On Ancient and Modern Learning (1697), Swift's patron, the urbane Sir William Temple, had weighed in on the losing side, that of the Ancients, repeating the famous paradox used by Newton that we moderns see further only because we are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants.