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发表于 2004-11-7 12:51 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
. n6 n) Y/ T$ a9 H  {" H! n( N- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.3 j8 ?9 q3 E5 T( F6 a7 O5 b$ E& a
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19816 a8 V' o8 k& h
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
4 P) P; c4 U! P8 W1 _+ y6 L$ p) W- B. F. Skinner
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' K2 p6 n* O: A. G: O! c- @2 }4 W4 kThere are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.: P- N" M( F8 `, s
- George Pompidou
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9 X; X+ k9 |% D- k9 L' C3 \) wTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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( g, Y. k: x4 m! p. Y2 lFor years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.1 y4 e( N/ P& H0 T; D- G2 @# E
- Anonymous. N7 H5 I4 _5 Z$ j7 K; w! U

5 x) e  {) B0 aComputers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done./ l: I7 a7 O* `' i; z- G
- Andy Rooney; t+ j3 d0 T1 v6 [5 }" a, A4 p

3 B9 V2 l' m$ o) IIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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* q) V/ \% ^1 L( c4 e" gI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" y0 C  K, m  C, s/ p2 i5 j  v- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943" n8 I  d8 ?2 p6 v  l- U
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.2 S/ k% ^+ Y8 x9 l7 U" f( h$ N1 J- h
- Anonymous; P* r/ V2 s& J. p8 P' Q0 A7 J
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
4 H, S9 Y& t8 @9 J- Y7 c- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
8 m+ ~% `9 r/ O7 f+ \- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.! j& r0 o% d8 U( d, k! m
- Anonymous
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( x( [2 a/ p+ i+ T. r1 rThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
2 c, g) j" _, Q4 u% _- Jeremy S. Anderson: {' a5 s8 s8 V' G  T: u
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
0 @! T; d" a2 X9 S% [$ _7 ]- Elbert Hubbard/ i& S" g6 \( c( v, v1 S

! z; x9 L9 @" I& f! GAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
9 y( d: x: {" ]0 l; j8 Y- David Thornburg
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Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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+ ~( i7 z8 d7 ~4 c. V9 jSave early, save often.
, l" p( r0 a  l' F8 c- t8 {6 B- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
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Release early and release often.
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" c2 L$ ^2 O. M9 [4 QWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
. |" M1 H$ c5 ?& }- u7 X5 J7 \( Q' V- Carl Sagan
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If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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& e4 V. o( _. m+ t' V% E# nThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
8 x: p$ y6 p3 @; Z" X0 x! F- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT% T+ h. h( p* ~. Z* P) u+ j
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
; R( P' e- l, H9 m- Arthur C. Clarke
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- a0 u; q. l1 H+ l' dAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.7 v6 k/ i/ B7 L% }
- Anonymous
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+ b. C' r: w3 z% {9 [3 t" MA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
) a; I1 W; D2 f. h- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
4 S6 A! Q, L/ @. P- Thomas Edison8 i. u- T/ Y2 U( a. }
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
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0 M/ h2 j4 k% w4 Y2 _The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
/ y( ^9 V7 ]; t8 }' W/ n- Senator Bob Dole2 j/ J, W, {# _- {" H
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
( ^3 g! C# w& F! B; ~% H4 v) l- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.3 {( x1 {0 C) A
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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$ _3 [9 t5 u( STechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.9 d# v3 u0 M5 E7 Z% n9 H* X" g' Q. Z
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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9 U" j# M$ J( f9 H  pHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?7 e7 r; w5 F- W" B* X
- Al Gore on Y2K+ z8 W* b& P% g! w& `! `5 u; x
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
' t+ o9 n; N# F0 s4 c- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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6 w- z! ~3 t' K5 SThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.+ m( d% A& ]8 }7 ^
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
. G7 U; s+ Z7 H9 m* q0 o- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
3 V, \/ t# t( k- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.4 y# r( P5 n" w/ O3 A) k( l' \% G& Q
- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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