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Richard Hamming, 1968 Turingspeech• Whereas Newton could say, "If I have seen a littlefarther than others, it is because I have stood onthe shoulders of giants," I am forced to say, "Todaywe stand on each other's feet." Perhaps the centralproblem we face in all of computer science is howwe are to get to the situation where we build on topof the work of others rather than redoing so muchof it in a trivially different way.32Wednesday, 7 November 12