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发表于 2004-11-7 12:51 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.* d) |8 G, ?9 f" [: s, K( ~1 j# w% k
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum+ Y. k9 u1 i" G, r3 P' ?; s4 }: Z

. h! `% d( Z$ T; f# V3 GWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?" v% _; m& u' N+ q7 e  }, l6 k* m  `
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.8 F4 S! e$ _3 x
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
: b3 `3 n& R3 ~; x- B. F. Skinner* M$ A: k9 l, t: m

. u! f- l0 [1 L4 u# pThere 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.$ k* h" P' Z5 \
- George Pompidou' }; A+ R; l% M9 |9 H

1 \7 e" }4 M- A( Y) n1 x* sTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
: ~2 C0 L( Z6 p5 y0 E3 \- Anonymous
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. w- Q( }( w8 aFor 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.# x3 H- h3 K9 h9 K: i, ~
- 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.1 M+ t! X6 G8 o# y! V2 N
- Andy Rooney) p  b; f( Y( J9 e6 ]
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
& x5 Z8 C* \5 C* R0 ?" b- Richard Power
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, o; B- x3 C1 kI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.  C- p2 [/ R1 F7 j# D
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943/ x* ^5 n) g: b& q- Z6 n- i

1 q. }6 B# n0 D6 n  N1 b. \If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
* U0 [$ F2 C% U: E- k( i- Scott Adams
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8 s$ M9 w2 W2 Z) M! ]In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.# ?* a! t9 ^+ B$ z" u2 S" _
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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7 V9 [" `! J( a2 X4 W% vAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.+ x# m1 o: Y1 V0 P3 [/ K3 y- G
- Anonymous) j5 O1 a, z1 i. t; C; l
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
. P8 S9 l  N# m  o- Jeremy S. Anderson
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+ ?) L/ H. H" B! Q* _3 F# U' OOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." h0 y6 r, t# d- y. V; v6 Y5 L
- Elbert Hubbard' h( R9 t& b) [
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
+ }% h+ Q3 {. w; J. X- David Thornburg. d7 _) k+ V8 c/ W8 D& |) J

6 |: L' n+ x6 D2 T1 F/ eThose 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.& L2 _0 G5 ?8 c* E; M
- Anonymous( c9 @2 v/ K% V' C' I; V4 P* Y+ q

; C8 c% ?! @2 ]# t% ESave early, save often.' N& E* j) }& e) S5 z/ i
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
8 I$ D; R0 X6 i% B  M- Proprietary developer adage
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9 r. t& \2 i- T2 q9 g3 iRelease early and release often.1 w3 O! W: r3 l% P/ ^5 H
- Open source developer adage" f: E* B7 M: K! z, P
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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.5 d$ l4 j5 b# P& |  ^) ?
- Carl Sagan8 c* P/ Z' D4 O& Y, D+ D

9 w, ?- P: U4 c$ Z2 E9 Q  ?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.$ _/ `# v- N; v0 w7 R
- Anonymous2 ~) k! S% R& T0 i4 w6 r
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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.: [8 q7 W; o2 H/ C
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.) F# g$ w6 M3 Y  [$ {: H
- Jerry Olson
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' ^. o+ E' {- v8 n. N; S. B: ?The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.+ o0 H0 X; p. f0 |
- Porterfield
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. l/ g, B* g1 O9 J5 N9 Y! {1 r6 S/ @Everything that can be invented has been invented.
* R% n. z# L2 |- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18996 N/ y6 K" I# b
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT; ~/ E3 n/ B6 Y
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969: i7 r) F3 O' w, }6 R" d6 J

' }' ]8 V3 p4 TAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.' M' z. A) ]) n) X
- Arthur C. Clarke0 Y7 x" k8 _" R5 B- B* ^. ^/ p2 y

5 a8 ~0 w0 u5 t+ c# f4 d9 A. JAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced." h, a6 f9 D+ n2 k( s
- Gregory Benford) Z5 n0 b+ o$ m7 q; h

: u4 M- i0 t0 Q# XNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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9 b, @- I, b, G# ^0 W$ HA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.& s. O! v6 }1 i' N9 T
- Alan J. Perlis+ }9 G$ j- B) u- T" E8 B
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.) ]- }& y0 ~& j
- Thomas Edison0 D' k, G! f. h

" S  d5 B- D  S. AGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.: O& v* b$ T1 i- E' x
- 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 developed8 s" E6 C  `2 S" Y) U9 M
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
, o' n5 K7 l, ^' D- 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.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
1 M2 d8 E) A. o; |; e8 J- _: ?- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy8 E; x2 Y2 k/ D# r  E7 t8 t& a
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
0 C, ?% L& W4 {( _$ g- Andrew Heller, IBM. o0 l: H4 g. u  i% y) C' a

6 A. K5 H. w+ _$ u2 V9 Q3 @0 OAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.: M3 B' p1 G7 l/ J3 W
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos4 Q3 W$ U  A) s  D6 E$ @
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
1 P* D( q" ~, X8 N6 T- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
2 |) W5 d5 F: G& x* U0 \; s- Sydney Brenner in 1927: G+ e2 ~& N7 Y' k2 f! I
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The 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.
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) w9 ]+ \* N6 V( f, {1 ^Windows is just DOS in drag./ x* J" U3 f3 d- }, A+ a" U
- Anonymous
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. n+ }9 F0 D9 F0 G; [There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 W. c0 A( w2 K$ r* [- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977
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发表于 2004-11-12 05:09 | 显示全部楼层
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.; f! N# C+ l- F! L' Y
- Thomas Edison' x0 o4 i3 W5 C9 s. w" Q

& U" B3 A% j% b5 Q8 U# FEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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