MIT </wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology> professor Hal Abelson
</wiki/Hal_Abelson> is credited with the quip "If I have not seen as
far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
Abelson himself attributes it to his Princeton University
</wiki/Princeton_University> roommate, Jeff Goll[citation needed
</wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources> ].