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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.
8 w& B7 [  g* G/ x4 t* C5 ~6 E% j5 R- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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/ q& t- j) J) x) BWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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4 S7 z; f" H1 L5 s1 E. u' Z  [' z0 C640K ought to be enough for anybody.
& }8 X% M! l, \% i- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.( L1 l& N' ^' q- A% k$ _
- B. F. Skinner
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( A$ O8 c: b( E; jThere 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.
, F5 e& i3 `6 a; m% ?- George Pompidou2 x2 b1 C5 A1 c5 \
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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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0 C/ Y$ x* X6 m+ M9 F$ u/ iFor 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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" u8 A4 C# l- H" S  `, WComputers 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.
4 S- [( W0 B/ _- Andy Rooney
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& P0 P, I* ?( W) N. XIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.+ c1 p% o7 i" H3 y+ v
- Richard Power* N) w$ b9 b0 ], c( O

; _7 A, o1 T6 S' w  y9 sI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
5 A1 S5 a( c; t+ q4 l  t  t3 O- 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.% w( R4 T, U$ V. n* q* w# ?3 D7 l
- Scott Adams% b9 O$ S! e0 @0 }
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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.3 J$ z5 {, `. _5 L. k# k+ N" ]! h
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.) ?( b" Z& u$ l  X# g
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.. K& J6 w" y/ M* ?3 f
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric* M4 \" Z( Q' V

4 P: d4 p( g1 L6 QAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.; Y. D. K& q  F
- Anonymous
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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.
/ M# J2 `+ k9 j5 y- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
/ k% ~8 \) w' ^0 y* i5 K3 x, C- Elbert Hubbard7 p' z; h: N6 M! O6 \& F" V! r

$ |' ^1 h1 X" q5 I% X- p! z7 `- L9 uAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.3 E9 r1 b' x( t7 A7 X
- David Thornburg
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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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Save early, save often.; ^2 z5 {7 C( e
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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3 ~6 U6 |8 }- s( U* ZBuild early and build often./ K8 C" o1 s/ B. c5 Z( |3 W
- Proprietary developer adage
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5 s3 C0 D4 ^: sRelease early and release often.
5 Z2 H' Y& L5 ^+ [+ ^- Open source developer adage
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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.
7 x# x, W* r2 T6 z- Carl Sagan
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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./ ?. |- l9 x: J, W' e
- 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.4 W% T  ^; K1 X5 ]& H0 J/ R
- Margaret Thatcher
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' _. G, |$ c, {0 L5 K1 X& hThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon." @! M# ]" x" B2 \% z9 v9 A; C) N
- Jerry Olson/ {" N8 k6 t- R% B/ t2 A4 D+ y

3 s. e  a7 V: g3 G* ?  \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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9 d8 X' ?, p: QEverything that can be invented has been invented." e% c; _2 K; V9 i9 i) z7 \
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
/ J# D/ ^% A; _1 g. w4 h# Q- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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  G0 L. v: P3 k! g3 ?# v# ?, WAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
& ?- _+ c4 y" m, W9 e1 [- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.. Y( f: s, O* A$ V
- Gregory Benford" k7 m$ F/ x6 [4 o! 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.2 f4 o/ E) R( v. S! _  j) z
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* X& b( N: a2 C" k0 II have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: n4 y; b4 U0 G2 f- 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.
  r( i9 [8 O7 f! j* l) ?8 C- 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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( f4 k. X8 k: g/ a8 W# |3 D: ^The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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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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6 e4 v3 z% W- q$ c- \9 M From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.0 s, v! h% W# B4 R' y$ L' e$ u
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy: |9 `% |6 F" A/ t

" U: Q# Y" h; I6 W8 Q$ [" {  }Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.+ @1 E5 U7 k' \! T' r
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
2 ~0 N: ]6 u, c- 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.* x2 U( M8 H8 A: ~: K
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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7 _  B) Q! i# }9 n# rThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.$ \9 V! I# I$ ]. P/ m( a  f* t
- 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.
3 M1 R7 h8 b( X1 O7 n9 ]- 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.7 k/ d: e" S% \4 K0 L& d5 D
- 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.1 O0 h. I/ L$ Y9 J/ j. E  y( m( S
- Thomas Edison# r) h3 j) Y+ W. y4 E6 R+ @6 Q

& F: J) z6 H( Y$ A& o- ]. X+ q! GEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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