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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.# w0 _+ F% N- |/ A
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum: Z* F7 U0 @" E& f) E" C5 G
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
% D2 P% I8 I1 P- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.0 g9 o8 \5 Y7 Z/ {( P
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.5 l5 J; [$ B' t0 {2 _+ P% Q
- B. F. Skinner, L5 E0 C; Z  _+ o; n( Y

7 M2 V( k! o" r" \: b  ^. ^: w: S. 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.
' w& _2 d# U1 g& |3 D! W- George Pompidou& n0 a: q9 o+ O7 i7 \& y/ L; E
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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.* ]5 L1 X& @3 ?" R8 G! U
- Anonymous
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1 ]& O; W! @0 q; x3 f' `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.5 m, f& f' u1 {) N( V  i* |( H' j
- 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.8 K+ }+ D0 f) K  R) l. L
- Andy Rooney
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/ e" t5 b/ @) S. t* ]+ PIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.$ |' k" S9 q0 d- a
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
4 f$ e; j3 h/ Q1 l- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943" u* M: z# h3 Y$ `  j
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.3 Y" o! L! X* N
- Scott Adams/ d! R: H3 d+ Y2 B9 Q! r1 z
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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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in./ ]* D% |+ L8 W6 c8 H' D
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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# [2 Z. i7 ~% y3 ]; OAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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1 h3 w* n; U' ]# i% JThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
9 ?. A- {) Z7 E$ x2 T/ c" v- Jeremy S. Anderson
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" B) y% T' M, D5 `) R+ W; LOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.9 o+ i! q% o& n; l1 M( g$ N# v# q, k: }
- Elbert Hubbard; M9 F% i/ g- o; }! q

7 R# T) \! f! u1 O* dAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
+ M; q* a, Y) W/ f# e8 z- David Thornburg+ M2 X7 L6 B+ F9 N* ]. @. G
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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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9 u9 Z0 z8 p, c/ wSave early, save often.
, j1 d! z7 _1 [$ n- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word9 y; J- s5 g" }
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Build early and build often.
8 {$ }/ ]. ~) S# c9 v4 }- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.1 x* k4 ]0 \1 s" `* G3 s* y
- Open source developer adage
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* L. i+ n' i4 b  ^8 M4 CWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.& ~) }) ~& N& h) v. c0 ]" [3 x
- Carl Sagan
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, e# y% B7 A1 P; s  @. qIf 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.8 y3 v: j5 c8 ^6 A, 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.7 b& h+ T# r2 P; A3 l( U3 F1 g
- Margaret Thatcher
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1 c. m( n2 ^$ o$ I8 r9 A( QThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
/ U9 [% `% Z; t4 ^. a0 p6 c9 T- Jerry Olson
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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.& q. E! D: e/ F( G" W2 Y) [6 U" c
- Porterfield
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3 E1 t1 {  Y/ v: B: Z$ }Everything that can be invented has been invented.# K3 Z8 O4 f2 h) p5 r+ P: L( O
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899) {+ ]& |0 h% D& E4 b
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
/ d1 ~/ t0 `; k5 R- Fairchild Research and Development, 19696 O4 i# W* G6 x) \0 d0 k$ H
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.) M3 n& u- G, i4 d; m0 E
- Gregory Benford8 I% z' @) @! x, E( z1 ]2 S
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.- @: u- H, M5 x2 h/ P7 d
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( L: D" Q' V4 Z  [$ ?/ g* BA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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" i6 Q2 k4 L3 `; b& q" `' LI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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& c6 w& I. W- k5 FGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
$ q1 x7 m4 s  ~3 L9 e7 k1 Q! m- 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% o# z) B& \3 a( Q! H2 j$ c% _7 t
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
2 D  f6 g( b0 N5 B' z) W8 \6 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.
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8 r& u* P8 h0 a- m- PTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.. m7 s9 l" M2 b( U
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.# i6 {6 y' E1 H8 F# L
- 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?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.$ n' D0 r9 o' r" W* a. K
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.$ M& G2 ^$ a# R( e
- Linus Torvalds; J" r5 K9 u  ~" V5 E
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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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5 P3 n. {- ^( H. t. h5 A; iWindows is just DOS in drag.2 G4 J4 l& ], q$ a9 l$ `
- Anonymous1 j9 u8 I( R, q+ c$ \& w
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.3 c8 L& U- Z- i) q
- 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.$ x: {4 c, j' @; G0 E7 Y6 H
- Thomas Edison: |2 j- G3 t, d) R- N
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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