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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.' R. y5 T7 a* t% W6 \/ y
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
/ G) k( `* l$ }3 Q- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.( A1 ^& Y* x2 v1 z6 K
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19816 T$ S' w9 ] Y
: A: u N3 R. Y1 iThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.1 e! G" X6 v/ Q; {! `; K. M8 ^" h
- B. F. Skinner
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$ r. u. U; w2 ~6 i# C xThere 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.4 |- J0 M8 T) n
- George Pompidou
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8 j3 Y6 e) h* `, c" m) U0 eTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.+ x1 w a1 }5 V# ~) ~' B
- Anonymous" I; z" |5 d& z8 m
8 O3 N6 c% |& [3 S( S$ X/ f! fFor 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.
1 Z# J1 T$ W% A- Anonymous
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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.
# D/ Q: H7 r* E M- Andy Rooney3 I8 {$ M" p( Y) R# U. l
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.% m8 E$ X; S! @2 V
- Richard Power
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/ x; e7 p: I5 B5 x5 c) I- CI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.1 U* T" K7 c, L Y/ X+ j& v
- 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.0 a) Y$ Z& t4 w( G, r6 h
- Scott Adams
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0 Y1 l. R2 u4 E" N, N0 NIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- D! E4 ?" M: `& L0 D$ S l1 M- Anonymous
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8 Q) O. b# j/ i( aIf 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.
! }6 N- H$ N6 r5 p7 b: d& ~6 A1 O* Z- 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.7 r; k! n, K5 O; H
- 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.
& S! H" y6 v! ]8 k2 n" ^7 Y c3 h- Jeremy S. Anderson4 G& R9 ~6 Q( y B; A3 {
/ o- L& ~! L/ g- J- \2 UOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
1 U7 j& ]" z1 X# @- Elbert Hubbard, i9 A" j& @8 q0 l$ Z
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be./ \$ }! A, k* u
- David Thornburg6 |$ M3 J7 ^/ }& B5 ]9 U* s$ }
5 T& q$ w- W3 @/ h- G- k1 h+ jThose 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- b5 V+ @- ~: s, X
- Anonymous, K+ S8 `( K6 m7 ^, L
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Save early, save often.
+ P, n7 P5 S- s7 H+ W- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word+ k; M% e1 t5 B% [
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Build early and build often.
) `) b J% e2 O; o- Proprietary developer adage# \. p+ v1 W6 y* m% {$ P8 V1 i
2 {3 J; A; a: ARelease early and release often.
' t3 c* _1 v2 j4 i) _- Open source developer adage# ?$ K" d4 N% T, q) |' e8 k6 A: R7 x
9 \% m& I' [- K, O9 F, s& \; Y! \4 e+ uWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." X) r$ v8 f; n8 E# \& l8 @8 Z9 V
- Carl Sagan
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1 m7 l" V f' }$ pIf 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.& h. R+ o% d* p& |# j- t$ X( u, |# N
- Anonymous/ c3 W* J) {+ {# p) q
- [ x5 \. R; r1 f/ E: JThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
7 w$ k4 ?; N$ l5 X2 z" K/ `, p- Margaret Thatcher y) M/ Y# Y! i+ q( t8 H
( f3 U$ O6 K3 C# L! \& k0 G9 F" G* LThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
) n; o. z7 J6 W* M4 W5 B5 H7 b$ u% p- Jerry Olson- ]0 p3 ~8 i2 F* t" m
+ O7 g( p# y% R# H; k9 y( j4 aThe 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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
' Y" A8 l( _; [: K- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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8 @7 u V8 W, E$ B2 G; s0 DGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT6 f( `* Y# J7 u1 w# x
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969- S, w j6 h% [3 K/ Q- _
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.( G- Z# j* B' q) d7 D3 [5 R- w
- Arthur C. Clarke' T5 A1 m f. [6 }8 r
& s, b: L' ?1 V" OAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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& Y9 _5 r2 L& V% T- f% J. fNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
3 n. O% ], J, R# M- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
7 T- V, a- L: q! d) a# T- l- Alan J. Perlis; h1 ]9 F. K, V/ C
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." T% Z2 Z. j1 @% }
- Thomas Edison" p6 \/ N( r: A- m5 A5 T; H w
8 g; I; A% P2 L* j! eGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
- G' ~; S7 ?5 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; ]" L1 Q% m- y" w9 {" ~/ L
8 Y T% | w. d& X) nThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.) f* b( {% T0 U. ~, p
- Senator Bob Dole) a/ }% U" U! ?5 F6 P7 P: b0 d2 a0 A
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.) n* V" P( h% J W2 G
- Popular Mechanics, 19497 k/ W% \- V. R# Q, T0 R
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
' Z. t. i0 j1 @% v6 B- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.4 o" ]! ]* w7 B# 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?6 l; o4 A+ U" M, j: @4 O
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent." x! W- w0 N# l! y
- Sydney Brenner in 19271 D2 A1 M% X; M
' \' ^, m/ E" U7 kThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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& g/ ]) J! y# n# Z0 G2 P+ aTo 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.
. _. T, T0 C9 ^( V* U5 M- 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.3 X, @4 [% v& B" H( v' V
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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