"This is practically the first time that Taiwan's scientific community has ex pressed opposition to national science policy on such a large scale," wrote Lee Kuo-wei, who was serving as director of the Academia Sinica Institute of Mathematics at that time.
「這幾乎是台灣科技界首次對國家的科技政策，以如此大的規模發表不同的意見」，當時在中央研究院擔任數學所所長的李國偉為文指出。