He's waiting until the AI christening. When the Godfathers are all lined up, Schmidhuber will dramatically burst through the church doors, brandishing a sheaf of papers from the mid 90s.
In all seriousness, he deserves more credit than he routinely gets.
100%, he's done so much amazing, groundbreaking work! In all fairness he should be included in the "Godfathers" list, for sure.