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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.( T, c! x' q# k
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum. `& x4 s3 y. i# D
, S/ ~8 h0 t/ @( S% H5 ?/ uWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information? |( B" c$ O* N( ~
- T.S. Elliot# _( ?& s8 P: M- t
9 @3 T6 X- _) @( m. D9 {) c640K ought to be enough for anybody.6 k% U* H8 ~/ x. ^
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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' Y: ?, v# y. p% j |The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.& q/ o3 J0 T8 F, T$ l
- B. F. Skinner
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2 y$ T! g0 [- V8 @There 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. w; C; T+ H: B* s d' c9 {2 i
- George Pompidou
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1 N5 W( v# S* W4 G. T9 u' U, CTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.9 U1 a5 j/ r; f
- Anonymous
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For 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. k& v! Q; U' E
- Anonymous
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Computers 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.3 c" H- t+ x+ s. Y
- Andy Rooney, q- U6 c4 u3 D }) _& {
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
; o5 V( g' Q4 n2 T% U2 @& T- Richard Power; G& j0 h; N2 }/ z. L( U ^
% f6 _" {+ Q% ~5 sI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
4 K3 F% j1 U$ {) ]" j' Y- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19430 r: m4 d9 j" P
- T2 V/ L9 b- M( k1 B% zIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
4 T& W: b( x% q( }2 U' C( J- Scott Adams
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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.- ]0 y4 Q/ C X# q
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.. {; p: { K( |; p- n! A' q% ]! G
- Bradley's Bromide
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) q0 N+ N7 F4 K$ wThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.3 {: x2 [$ \& ~
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric1 G$ Z) }6 X9 i: \7 [; r( d
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.7 u0 z8 m. S; ]) u2 D7 @
- Anonymous
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" ^, l" a$ _7 _9 M: pThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
$ X" @6 s# o1 W0 U) u; p4 |7 O- Jeremy S. Anderson. [" J+ F/ o/ R' s, r2 h6 h% M
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.3 x# F0 v0 B- X" ?0 U! R8 q5 Q/ X
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
# F& b( H% C. h9 t# p- David Thornburg
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4 W# G: L* Z7 T' WThose 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.8 G A# m. k4 H/ |; d4 x
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2 ^5 h V( ]0 N2 k) K$ r: ]: rSave early, save often.
9 o% q) T6 Y( \/ ^9 g! P- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often. M7 U6 P5 h. t$ I X+ {* P( U
- Proprietary developer adage
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$ `, K) Y9 w9 T* g9 {2 t& U# V ARelease early and release often., [* T" `3 a' c* Y# F3 V
- Open source developer adage
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
; Z+ H" H/ d. v. B, A; H- Carl Sagan
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4 b! ] o1 S5 b; E% G4 G! l6 m( OIf 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.1 G: s2 V4 C; I' m! O. I
- Anonymous
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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.: x! U+ P( o. q3 |9 R- a, [# r
- Margaret Thatcher6 Q* |, k# e9 D% R1 ^7 u x# k# C3 G
; `9 U @0 r' sThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
( l( q/ G2 [/ [) ]; L! L/ G5 c- Jerry Olson8 X* G2 L8 z3 K$ Z6 Q
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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., X& u7 C( {; w5 P/ V/ @
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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3 |$ [+ y8 _; p' b1 bGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT* e& J/ t- }9 _) B* y
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19693 ]) f2 |( K5 L. o- i
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
. H2 `, {- B1 m( K# @/ |- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
% }/ n k% ^( X- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
7 U* j- g3 ? |- {- Anonymous8 A8 J& @% _/ P5 i9 o
8 X* @# G5 R% z, }, XA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
O6 z% F- K9 t/ y( I' }- Alan J. Perlis0 x8 e4 n) j1 i5 f; h6 e: H
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
1 R: D0 v' [, j# x4 M8 {1 W6 g' ^" R- Thomas Edison+ \/ _+ v6 m3 t% Z/ 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.9 } E: P9 @0 ~5 T
- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed! Q/ I; w0 ]/ U8 n. l+ O; L7 S5 p
! u! e& j1 T% L6 t: T) cThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.; V- N- O- u" p: V
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.% s. V- S; Y; n& l1 h
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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; N; X$ y$ @- w% ~3 C From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. z. _ |% w1 j1 ]" o- }7 }
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy3 K6 F8 M# w; A" G0 J/ v% \* Z
; m. t! m3 A' KTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
2 x2 W3 r! w% l9 A5 l- Andrew Heller, IBM3 Z2 B/ n3 W1 Y, f1 x I
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
( r& \, `( i( p3 d! F$ H0 s- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?3 `1 g% z# z$ W
- Al Gore on Y2K! z9 d( F* e$ j) v! c6 H
! o) t- V9 @6 @) a, dThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.* S/ Z$ p, ]8 J' v# Y
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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; J7 Q0 ^4 n1 T% wThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.- X/ L5 m& F0 m% \. R( g
- Linus Torvalds
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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.
1 `) ] a J- k; a9 I- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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2 j! P/ y! G7 k- {# c( `There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
& d# R3 k, G) c ~+ P: e1 a3 }: j" M# c- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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