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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.
) {! h9 v$ ~# Z/ b& Q+ m- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?7 D: B  L- a- L! P7 k, g! T
- T.S. Elliot, b7 B$ Q  N" e7 P8 g  ]

2 V% V6 R4 w, k- R640K ought to be enough for anybody.# v7 r+ V/ X  P9 \8 [: \
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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' a! G( _7 N$ o- p2 }4 xThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.: B4 ]2 z, j) w- O5 L# r; I
- B. F. Skinner: m- u* X8 P8 r8 M2 Y
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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.
2 i& J9 A5 W$ ]4 h- George Pompidou5 Z* q, j- C$ L

7 D3 Q6 l0 S! q: 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.9 n/ C6 G+ j4 @! X$ G7 i, N5 r9 H
- Anonymous7 A/ o) b3 F* k- W, E7 R

  C; n1 A& U4 l! y: l, \$ h- LComputers 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.1 M5 {: T# f& H- B3 ?
- Andy Rooney( h( N- r2 V5 ~) Y$ `" z% X/ D

) L5 s; K$ ?$ w3 tIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
. ]+ [( \- I7 f) }5 V. @+ c- Richard Power$ R. Q. p0 k7 o' B; F3 \, g
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
7 d/ [& M: [3 d3 l$ H- `7 U6 a; i: {9 b- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19433 q; R( X0 x6 k7 b: N) m

7 c8 o+ I0 U! K) LIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
9 V5 _% t; ?, n+ \: T0 k, g- Scott Adams+ k5 H+ T) E, Q; s. l" j' x

' j- H- z0 p: _. M- X0 VIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.: Z1 {3 ?0 w' x5 i9 e9 o  ^4 R
- Anonymous( S/ m5 D! a9 T% w. g
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.* ^$ r6 p1 ^7 Y
- Bradley's Bromide' E' A* E, S/ ?2 U0 s9 d( e2 p; D
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.2 @% j/ p. k4 w' s# Y
- 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.
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2 ?  i! A  r4 C5 {There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.+ _! R! s! U9 ~% U' R' ?0 i7 c
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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9 t5 Y+ D( C1 o0 uOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.! z4 g& b& ^$ S/ r
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.& p# J3 F/ m, I* a2 s  s5 a: G
- 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.. J1 t8 r( l$ ^' a: ~1 b. a
- Anonymous' ~% E' J! ~$ ]; L6 o- G. E

- P: t3 Z/ u& v, W% D) T9 B# USave early, save often.9 e& a1 X- e+ h8 N$ Z; N( Y+ K6 d
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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/ A! J3 \& K" @3 W$ }$ u% OBuild early and build often.
4 q+ P! b1 g7 `; \- Proprietary developer adage
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1 [+ x; \6 n6 t5 D7 N) ]# B" FRelease early and release often.$ q7 ~+ `1 f$ s- x
- Open source developer adage: e: U# p9 `1 V) W" m
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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.
8 J- U6 F% d9 o4 m- Carl Sagan7 a0 c4 |) |  R1 ?9 i2 r2 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.
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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.2 I5 s: e1 l. D$ G5 W. F, t
- Margaret Thatcher: a' x! x' _+ T& \) e, ]9 }5 W) s
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
3 J$ R9 _) i# T. e- Jerry Olson
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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.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.: z' \2 \8 G, t" B9 k% Q% ?3 A/ D+ s
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT+ J  l0 G5 Y5 s& l$ G+ q* `
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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7 C+ l8 g- ~: ?0 M1 |Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
2 O" p4 ^* B% a1 U3 A0 T7 y- Gregory Benford
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: {, s% r- y( Y4 s0 d" CNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.6 t9 D4 ]! a1 u6 G% f2 D' u
- Anonymous
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0 [8 R% T2 E6 \3 L  X9 zA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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. ^( o6 i, T. A5 B! g! |I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.* M/ {0 P" ]3 w
- Thomas Edison
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# p3 X' u: T8 s! R9 d% }9 xGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
% ^1 M* G. |+ h% `% t- 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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8 c. E; F) b# w. a- J2 KThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.4 O- l  i0 h- t2 e5 e# A1 s, L
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.$ F  d* T* ^+ X
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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; U/ s4 _" B; S2 ^; l6 j From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
1 N! w4 Y# E- B+ F% l) ^% B- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy5 U9 S7 e( h  ~1 {2 T
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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.# l! g, r# w$ r5 m
- 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?. O, {0 W+ m6 B! F1 r: j5 g
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
+ m3 N: Q4 W9 C. F5 N/ j- Sydney Brenner in 1927, X$ |. @  L' v. Q

4 a& ~6 O& [9 Y2 i% mThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.4 _# b  A9 ]" L" @
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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.: \9 Q# \% y% v1 \' ^1 M
- Linus Torvalds. Q5 G. L- t# x

- K$ G9 l3 j  s, ]' A. NWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.% K. j4 s0 h/ B  @8 v8 G6 |# m3 E
- 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.
3 K# k7 ]2 `) r" X2 F) N; t- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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