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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.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?9 \) \; B6 t5 U7 J2 P* U7 A
- T.S. Elliot, Q5 \" k/ A& c3 a  F
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- L% _' @# Y. ?4 h+ ^7 B- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19819 x3 m" t9 f: X3 e# h
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.4 {; v0 o/ I& o# O) z* y" V
- B. F. Skinner
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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.
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7 k$ X# R6 _5 B8 v+ XTechnology 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.3 D: x4 e2 A7 @+ R3 ^9 V4 m( i
- Anonymous  P0 F3 w! m6 Z
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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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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" K  {+ H1 Y8 b* Y- I7 qI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
. f3 ]) Q+ i" H: d7 o% F- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.; I5 X; o' O, z; ^: F1 l8 [8 k/ R. d
- 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.
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! Q3 t' \' t, |$ rIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
" j, t: @% H4 Z2 Z/ O, `6 v8 n* m- Bradley's Bromide
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7 m+ l& w: C* T( {$ R: Z9 b# cThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
7 R( `( F) O5 _4 [# V- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric$ G' ?, w$ q; X, p- `

& t9 I+ F. r) V' d$ QAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.' c9 j9 Y5 I& @* m8 k5 B! I! p
- Anonymous5 W; @# T( p' J. |4 f7 c

8 w9 F* H9 ^& Q7 n& `. qThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence., i) b: C+ V3 J! \; F3 w
- Jeremy S. Anderson" n, O& k  b& F5 `9 w1 y; }
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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& p1 }! J" o7 H) e/ s) N, S  _Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.9 j1 w$ R- J6 G; a
- David Thornburg) i! a; Z- w) h% ?- A7 @

& @3 D; ?7 m2 U3 z6 BThose 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., |5 w6 a$ D: C8 [& j# J0 y
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Save early, save often.
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Build early and build often.
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Release early and release often.8 p, m: ]  K: p  a' _1 v7 x
- Open source developer adage$ Z8 k) J) _: u* b( x: _
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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.$ K9 B" ^' Q6 G2 J- G
- Carl Sagan% J3 U4 k9 A; J! ]" ?+ |
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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." Y5 g. |1 f" T% C1 N+ V4 ^- h" ]
- Anonymous
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9 p, T. ~$ I. m( NThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
! a- t+ ~+ G  A, O" A- Margaret Thatcher
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- m* K  \$ O3 g  }The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon./ {. x! J2 x- v8 O. ^. r
- Jerry Olson
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3 j  L: W0 m# G6 n# e4 kThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little., Z+ E0 C& C; C3 O; h
- Porterfield
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' V+ v% |; T- o- ~# g  l" SEverything that can be invented has been invented.2 Q+ M/ U1 ]$ L7 @1 s2 q5 e
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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$ q4 o: s2 u6 Q5 S9 _, }" C& NGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
; Q: z) G" U/ ^9 G9 Y  T& D- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.  P: L4 I- p% X, u6 ^; K
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.: f% l/ R+ H( Z8 X
- Gregory Benford) Z2 ~& f8 m& y9 K
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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.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.+ p$ ~; Z5 y5 Y
- Thomas Edison
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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.( L( h4 {( ]' Y2 {& u+ ]
- 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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9 s2 \/ ]; I  X- ]4 |The Internet is a great way to get on the net.2 z* D4 \' T; F, l
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
1 |. M+ A5 c* q$ S) i; k2 @2 f- Popular Mechanics, 19494 k# f$ V2 n* s8 u* [! _& ]  Q8 D2 H
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.5 H9 `& m& F& H5 ]
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy1 p# g' z- a% B4 J

- |' F' D( |, ~: ^0 hTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes./ y; W) z! R8 X
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.9 R8 \- X5 N* |; o
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos$ S( ]' B0 {, }* H
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
9 S9 d. o6 X" x  H5 F" j; l, v- Al Gore on Y2K: `/ d; V% d2 h% y0 U8 `
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.) @% H( o+ c) g( f
- Linus Torvalds
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/ S9 y9 i1 R* E% v4 G4 @( LTo 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.. k4 S# M, ]3 l- E% Q6 p1 `# ?4 \
- Linus Torvalds2 G$ D5 a$ ~! {! z2 G
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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.' Q7 r4 [% Y5 f% P
- 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' B2 q: d8 t- Y6 ~& }- Thomas Edison  D& I2 N: N$ Z6 r

$ m4 G  H7 P8 @# b5 k- dEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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