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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.
" q& K0 ~+ j6 ~+ z- Andrew S. Tannenbaum# V2 }, C! J7 ~  w* }

# u, k" E5 X- o4 V$ @6 e) GWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
  D2 k. u  F* q$ V; i' s2 L- T.S. Elliot
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- ~$ G, p( h5 u" ]5 @640K ought to be enough for anybody.3 R* s( R7 x, i3 a
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19819 O( g& o! H- G

. `' \+ \# s& A' }2 |  TThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do./ k6 V; _4 g+ C  A6 C$ w. |  y3 X4 K( H
- B. F. Skinner, h( Y8 c' S# J* [2 g
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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/ E5 @4 U) F, Q2 {; I9 R) P
- George Pompidou9 D; c1 a2 S- B; T3 {) @$ n0 L

6 K# `8 z6 U/ A( O  m& ^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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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.
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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.- a3 ^7 N  [9 b( l. Q) B
- Andy Rooney
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' s  O! n0 c8 O/ O" |- FIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
. m* p# D6 ^7 u5 F- N- Richard Power
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/ L: `5 z; q5 w7 C$ |. `# t- II think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
2 h5 ?+ ^) e: K9 z- K* e- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943( L( h! O, N% i' p8 h' ]

# b/ j- i9 g$ H, Q* g2 N; i+ tIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
% u! _3 P% U2 f( }- m$ X4 @1 W4 [- Scott Adams
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9 P$ Z! H. R) r) G( _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.
; i3 ~$ x8 t% U- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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1 g, C# ]+ N0 R$ lAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.1 W2 b6 s6 B3 a
- Anonymous
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. `* L: I. v8 R* |9 vThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.. Y' O2 r/ H0 z: a. [
- Jeremy S. Anderson% v2 C* `$ R' P1 h5 k

  K5 E$ L( B. S* u8 ]7 VOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
8 D" c/ E6 s$ z- Elbert Hubbard+ F$ A, S( c3 u1 W- q4 H
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.: T$ \7 p% ?8 l" h! _" Q+ r0 I
- David Thornburg
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, G, y% d$ V" u9 ]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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; J4 L( X5 c% Q( [3 \' xSave early, save often.
2 F: k) w2 L/ B+ R* O- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word0 o  C; t% Y( o  O1 Z" S7 m; W- c

' Q& C4 p" Z: y- z% J* SBuild early and build often.5 f+ D. [# h6 O! N, b6 T* P
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.  M" Z1 S; a9 i8 G
- Open source developer adage
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1 _! D% h; a5 F6 PWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology., ]; _+ I6 q* g0 D
- Carl Sagan# x! }- W4 A! Z4 q  B

, [( a4 s' B2 |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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The 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.9 [/ W0 r6 @  V+ ]7 w
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4 V& O: ]0 B" ^8 K, y4 YEverything that can be invented has been invented.
' Y* t$ F" r: X( V: E- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18997 b. _  i* I; Z. K- ~

/ A- O. w+ D. Z, g# \GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT! }$ g: h9 f! n- Y/ j) e
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.# y, e; M8 V. K5 r, z
- Arthur C. Clarke) X3 H. h: C- y9 Y
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
$ q' |7 f- A' d/ d. c$ ~- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
* `2 S% k. i3 j' w  H# o- Thomas Edison; n: Y/ Y  Z- _
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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." n9 ~8 k  @' C: N
- 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
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& R: E5 `- g* i: X+ L7 XThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.( L/ X. N7 u, v2 B
- Senator Bob Dole: @: H; |' {* G, k

; C, \3 C' S0 G* J$ bComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.' B$ K8 X$ v8 {
- Popular Mechanics, 1949; R8 m; E- P8 D/ }! Q

, F* ~+ t, \: {; C" b; \7 n 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.2 f5 ]: m0 q# ]& h5 k
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.9 x2 \; @! a9 ^
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos3 v  |/ z. i9 Z( O

" p1 ^( e% j& yHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?  b( T9 M( g. ^& f/ x
- Al Gore on Y2K$ Z0 {( |  ~' W- C& L: w. }9 ~

  ]( }% c* ^" J' CThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.7 h' v7 q4 r* ]/ |% q# @+ u
- Sydney Brenner in 1927/ P8 E8 X5 `% v* n
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.8 k, f# r/ s) @2 e* x  p
- 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.
- L5 ~( y4 j6 J- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.  z1 T. m3 R! n4 }! ]; R1 d
- 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.% h# G1 V; L  A  ~6 ]  i8 t4 A
- Thomas Edison7 V4 P8 U1 X9 G* i8 J0 a
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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