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<head><title>The Three Extremos</title></head><body><h1><img src="logo.gif"> The Three Extremos</h1>The Fathers of eXtreme Programming
<p><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WardCunningham">WardCunningham</a> - the inventor
<p><a href="KentBeck.html">KentBeck</a> - the articulator
<p><a href="RonJeffries.html">RonJeffries</a> - the ranter
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Wow. Three is a wonderful number. So many possibilities. Three Musketeers, Three Stooges. Siggy Freud and Eric Berne's tripartite views of personality. The list goes on and on.
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I'm honored to be listed in the same breath with these giants of the field. And grateful for not being named "the ranter". --<a href="RonJeffries.html">RonJeffries</a>
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"If I have seen farther than others, it is by stepping on the toes of giants" <em>[that must refer to when they pick us up and throw us]</em>
<p><em>I believe that quote is from <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlbertEinstein">AlbertEinstein</a>, and it should be "standing on the <strong>shoulders</strong> of giants" but maybe I'm missing some humor in the misquote.</em>
<p>It's not Einstein, it's at least Newton and farther back. Extract from GS Telecom explanation (<a href="http://www.gs-tele.com/standing.html">http://www.gs-tele.com/standing.html</a>) is ...
<p><UL><li>"...The most popular attributation is Sir Isaac Newton, the brilliant British scientist (pictured) who established the laws of gravity and the universal laws of motion. In 1676, at the age of 33, he wrote <strong>"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."</strong>"
<p><li>"The phrase implies that human knowledge and understanding is a very cumulative affair. Ironically, the quote itself has a long history. It is thought that Newton will have seen the aphorism in Robert Burton's The Anatomy Of Melancholy - <strong>"Pygmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves."</strong>"
<p><li>Burton in turn took his cue from the 12th Century scholastic Bernard de Chartres who is quoted as saying <strong>"In comparison with the ancients we stand like dwarves on the shoulders of giants".</strong>"
<p></UL>The business about standing on the <strong>toes</strong> of giants is a take-off once heard in high school, from bright students who were hinting that they obviously couldn't see as far as Newton, but might be annoying some people anyway (please do notice the tongue in the cheek).
<p><em>There is also a quote I've heard often, but don't know the attribution. It's a direct reply to Newton's saying: "In computers, we stand on each other's feet."</em> I think this was in Datamation by a famous computer person with
a name that started with G.... way back when.
<p>I've seen it attributed to Brian Reid. Apparently Hal Abelson (co-author
of <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?StructureAndInterpretationOfComputerPrograms">StructureAndInterpretationOfComputerPrograms</a>) also said "If I have
not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my
shoulders". I cannot guarantee the accuracy of either attribution.
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Some claim that Newton's quip about "standing on the shoulders of giants"
was a sarcastic rejoinder to Robert Hooke who claimed to have co-invented
laws of gravitation. You see, Hooke was a hunchback...
--<a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AamodSane">AamodSane</a>
<p>Wasn't Hooke's and Newton's spat over the nature of light: waves <em>vs.</em> corpuscles?
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The details of this quote are mired in myth, like most of Newton's popular works. The quote is actually delivered as a backhanded comment at Robert Hooke (1635-1702), who Newton carried on a life long rivalry. Newton used this quote in a letter responding to Hooke's claom that Newton stole the hypothesis on light from Hooke's "Micrographia". Newton was familiar with Micrographia and claimed that Hooke took much of the work from Descartes who - claimed Newton - took his work from Marcantonia de Dominis and Ariotto.
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