It was a pleasure for me to have met father Roberto Busa S.J ., back in 2000. He is the kind of man who silently introduces new trigger-off ideas that bring about change in our daily life. His “hobbyhorse” was a systematic analysis of Saint Thomas Aquinas’ language structure – lemmatization - which he delivered in 56 volumes, now available in CDROM, DVD and on the net . Crucially, he met with Thomas Watson Sr . in 1949 and persuaded him to sponsor the project. Apparently, this may seem a very elitist and academic achievement. Far from that. With no exaggeration, he is considered the pioneer of linguistic and literary analysis. The most mundane version of linguistic analysis is the hypertext that allows multi-dimensional navigation through texts and images. We just take for granted the usefulness of the Internet but often we are forgetful of those who contributed – though unwittingly – to its realization. Hats off to this humble and nonagenarian priest who deserves our attention a