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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.
) A) }. i2 T9 z$ ^5 Y0 p* d- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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- B& |2 C: I/ _3 T& h7 N" IWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?- {/ b, ~' ~. P& z2 p
- T.S. Elliot
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) m' c) p4 L0 V: A, N; n9 J640K ought to be enough for anybody.# r; G# D4 y* [* E4 }
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981/ S4 u% p0 s+ o

: r. ]" ~+ U8 [1 a* aThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.! }3 s# h$ W0 {' j" {: i! c! U7 ~
- B. F. Skinner
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/ e9 Y" `- D5 {0 Y; X6 J, R% q: TThere 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.  j- _/ j0 f3 i* G' t: _' p% A
- George Pompidou
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# W* i1 S3 ]2 g: J+ CTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.9 x! V+ P7 G2 @' O: D" Y
- Anonymous
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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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! ]5 P! M) E1 c# e1 ?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.- \3 B* `+ t4 }
- Andy Rooney6 G, v; p/ H9 h7 ]. k( i3 l
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers./ i% g* H7 G" t% A
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.# X) |: j3 U8 Z% r- N9 m7 m2 y; `
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943$ z6 N: N& Y4 {% M/ h( N3 ?6 ~
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.# p$ Z: }& o$ ]; O$ e, ]2 b  `
- Scott Adams! y  p8 V/ ~4 T+ j5 j6 ~0 R3 ~
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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.
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, M+ M& J" r, Y) K1 i6 R$ J# eThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
5 R/ n- y- y2 x) F: l! N- j* M2 D- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric* L/ i5 e$ b2 C' k
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user., A8 `- i  {+ c9 Z" K( ~8 [
- Anonymous' D& `! I; {" x# C3 d

6 u. N' e: r& g' yThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.6 l; q9 T6 U* K$ C3 l
- 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.6 Q1 }4 G: M) S& _
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
2 a% u' i  y; v0 `1 Y0 i" f; X! P- 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.) W) F% w/ a  y( r, I
- Anonymous1 C7 s" ]1 f5 g9 ?, w7 y) _# U! Q. {
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Save early, save often.% ^* q' |; r4 i; X: p' C$ ^8 m
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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- l1 S! X. o1 j. a7 M9 RBuild early and build often.  _3 I8 ]3 N9 V- b1 i
- Proprietary developer adage. B  e+ D0 c7 q& W& t

" ?$ Z2 Z% P: c6 G5 sRelease early and release often.
, M7 h/ H( @: `: b1 n- Open source developer adage
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" @# l" N5 ?/ v% j: v- Y$ ^5 M& W) `We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.% v- k5 N" d. Y/ }0 n
- Carl Sagan
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: @9 f& {/ U, ]( V5 }( nIf 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.' g2 C: e1 e# d4 _& }% T
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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.
6 X  [' P, p7 `9 b- Margaret Thatcher, D6 _5 Y7 V: K! q  o; B4 K; |

# F7 _/ t: q, z% G, dThe 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.# S- Y" h( M1 Q1 w+ B8 U# l
- Porterfield. I* |+ R. e: _1 U7 a# w
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
/ l/ e( C5 W' T$ T1 ~  `! f% i- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT' I9 P- u  J( Q
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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6 I0 Z8 }1 p: U+ I9 {# ~Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.3 m$ N8 B  c' @0 r1 b+ @5 V  H/ s
- Arthur C. Clarke
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6 U" ]* E) i6 p: T7 AAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.! P: v+ @- z8 D7 ^
- Gregory Benford
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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./ k! B* p+ m( m' E
- Alan J. Perlis; {# S9 l0 U) @! F7 A3 r
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
/ d- l3 g9 }& G- C3 p- e- 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.
) L1 x, _5 P% R9 z7 Z9 ~- 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net., e4 B6 R+ [( J7 |" i/ v& X
- Senator Bob Dole$ J# ~' G& V+ t- R$ s" ^
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.3 T; U9 N2 c" {* N1 s
- Popular Mechanics, 1949$ ^- O; {8 w. S4 p+ S' R

+ t+ C: C$ Y/ F0 R From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
$ k7 k$ ^, h" d6 `, B- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy: _! O( Z) z* t

3 S' n1 _& V' r" A1 RTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.6 y# P5 T" O4 h4 m$ Q' U1 h* |
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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/ m* X" b3 n1 g9 m6 g- U1 @7 uAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive./ K$ G$ J9 W1 Q; f" v" n9 f
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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6 Z6 X: X" P. c2 O& N: ]; e" bHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
% M2 v0 k( \" ?, z- Al Gore on Y2K
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2 b2 J8 b. H' P, f# d" MThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
, B) R$ b7 _3 ]: W2 k, H- Sydney Brenner in 1927# a# J. y' P3 K, [

, _3 I7 s& D+ v8 |8 y5 m" cThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.% P& e! N  M7 [6 r0 z( q; I
- Linus Torvalds
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- Q' g& I1 a! N  P" t+ Y" QTo 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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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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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.
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4 f# b* L0 \- p5 FEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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