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This reminds me of a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote to the effect of:

"Walk into a bookstore and look at the number of books on a topic. The more books on a topic you see, the less we understand about the topic."

There's a lot of clashing perspectives on computing and modern software architectures so I'd say Hamming is on the dot.

Hamming is the compression guy right? I feel theres some extra connection seen here in being able to compress down the redundant info in that section of the bookstore

Is there any reason to believe Hamming said this? https://wiki.c2.com/?ShouldersOfGiants kind of implies no.

As far as standing-on-giants jokes go, when Stekel defended himself to Freud with "a dwarf standing on a giant sees a little further", Freud replied "a louse on an astronomer does not".

https://books.google.com/books?id=wmB9AAAAMAAJ&q=louse+intit...

"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my toes."

"my shoulders" actually.

From Hal Abelson, who attributes this thought to his Princeton roommate Jeff Goll

Don't most SV types believe they've picked themselves up by their own bootstrapped?