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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.
, V; y+ T4 z$ A+ d1 X- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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; B+ q! s: V! ]$ u5 @/ q8 ?: pWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?' U, f$ ^$ P9 R
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
5 u* S& f( ~( F5 o, l# @- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.+ K3 _3 _) @& a, c( ]. D
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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.
  S' ?) t: ^; E8 @- George Pompidou
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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.
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  R  P) f; p) ?* R$ t  h2 O8 K- @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.* t3 e" f& }  N' d$ x) R" {5 v* h
- Anonymous* @0 g/ @/ M" J) j# g, e

5 j2 J3 p( I) c8 x6 JComputers 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.
& A" m$ z5 B5 U) U' ^- Andy Rooney# v# _+ a: w' v6 U" ^6 C" [9 s
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
6 [: J1 ]& Q4 }2 G/ @9 Q$ v# c5 W- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- c. X+ `0 {5 ?8 q- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943, {* ]4 p7 _2 V1 h8 O+ ^) U
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
  T, M$ _8 k6 l3 }$ `, Y- 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.. I/ f  |. b% U6 y5 g2 P$ a0 c8 H1 ]* X
- Anonymous
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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.$ P8 Y9 Z+ c0 S; r1 ^
- 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.# `3 o- U' Q( Q% {3 D9 I/ N  v
- Anonymous( O8 J2 T! B1 d; r% Z

! U' \6 W) K+ K- w! D& hThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.8 d. d: @- P+ f1 r9 s  }
- Jeremy S. Anderson3 I+ H% w0 X5 I

# g$ b0 c4 B" g9 u& G+ tOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
( K4 a6 `4 T* J+ E( F- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.1 h6 ^2 c! z  w& y7 L1 p$ U, O
- David Thornburg
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$ w* {+ P3 s: x# k% @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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Save early, save often.; T9 F# `: H0 ^+ s. X4 Z) _
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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  l, v$ t, D  n# {  F8 x& O/ wBuild early and build often.
' K5 v- l8 G! J( _- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
$ f* A3 Q6 U) c" F9 }' ]+ t: F- Open source developer adage
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, K! A9 `' J; X! J: s; d: YWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.% I; V. B% R$ ]
- Carl Sagan/ Q" R5 M/ n0 N( g1 a1 {' f4 E

3 F5 D; ~- N. Y7 a* O3 T) IIf 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.$ i. d2 V& ^7 A
- Anonymous: a7 u- E/ a$ X+ C4 l) X

/ G. i, |' y2 |+ p! vThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.' j( p3 x5 _' e) N. D& |  m
- Margaret Thatcher6 T3 B# Y! S" l; D- M5 D' W

8 w3 C1 D# F4 t+ l& I3 eThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
( g: V) n$ U! z3 F- d- Jerry Olson, W! |6 C8 {9 W# ]

3 o6 y' n" \3 G3 e' l# f+ H' ?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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0 l1 ]4 E4 ^# q9 e( \Everything that can be invented has been invented.% @% V! x+ w7 E+ j0 Q/ d! o& \
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
/ b! e$ g* r% J( T/ ?2 K- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
, J1 `, e2 k4 D% v6 K- Arthur C. Clarke. ^% h6 ?: i) R" t9 S

& Q& D& u+ ^! @, f) \5 R% vAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.& [# z4 n/ B3 F! T, p1 X" }6 I
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
  N, s' f$ W/ u- Alan J. Perlis
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$ b/ X7 v$ I" v; e( GI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: R) x, b2 i4 [: X8 U0 r8 }
- Thomas Edison* P4 W5 N! t( i5 E' F) {6 V+ w
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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.4 K! ^' q8 V$ W7 V/ ]
- 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 developed0 E: J* M# U" O. J/ f* g
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.0 Q6 M& c( ]5 N; Z
- Senator Bob Dole
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5 N" R$ H" @& w% @Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.4 @0 y/ Q; s& x7 M
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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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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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.$ V7 i/ b9 g; E4 W
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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0 C6 V9 P5 q( s; w3 \* Q1 n1 B- gAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.1 }) J# N: L) T$ J
- 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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# Y+ T# ]3 @+ l3 D4 RThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
. b& \( ]- q4 ^. d- Sydney Brenner in 19279 h( V! C' i9 |

3 F" M! }9 ~+ O' x% N) S' KThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
; f' B! E3 a$ E7 J! z/ r& H: }- 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.# @" F; w. Z) Y- S& F
- Linus Torvalds3 u- E, |, g! u- X3 q1 d$ p

+ a4 k' g7 v5 zWindows is just DOS in drag.: T) r& q; a  r5 \4 _
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& a' m8 p% U4 l$ p1 x3 |: W' {' dThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
# c& o3 ~+ \3 ^2 H2 X; v4 i- 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.- `+ ~) q' R9 u: I! U
- Thomas Edison' R( r" I( d) J- Z" V

# U) [: i( b5 P2 hEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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