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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.
% o0 M; c; F. m9 Q( N- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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# k, t1 i6 I" B# yWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?# C! h& A" V, t5 Z- Z) [2 ?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.6 X5 c4 P! l6 ]
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981" P/ T8 k% b) s( C

$ k; r4 l& H- u; ^. p8 mThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
1 a% U) o; B5 A/ [& r- B. F. Skinner
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% X) q3 g: [( R4 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 ]% O! d# B6 T- George Pompidou6 z- r# @& {" |* m* e( k
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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.5 |; S6 s# Y  x6 G; Z
- Anonymous) U' G1 l+ L/ l, j/ u' O6 ^% ^) x$ L

: h- c$ X2 ^3 \  R/ G% g( ^# D, @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./ j; G  O8 ~4 g) J; W" a6 h& F
- Anonymous# U! |" J1 k" }% @* D
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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.' z: b  [4 r* ^% F0 Y6 W6 t
- Andy Rooney% N' S% E5 E; e* r! ]. ~: t
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
! {' P$ Q, Y+ n: y- Richard Power! u  L2 O- l  W0 g2 F) w

* M2 i+ h! o% E* GI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.0 p$ H1 I+ O% M& j% c; g; p! q
- 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.' g8 }; p7 R% O4 ~/ R
- Scott Adams. Z  U2 D+ h) g& L

3 G( L0 O3 J; b# QIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.  i2 T! g( u2 |, [2 G  x
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.$ D$ ]6 d9 {! \8 J4 H6 C% c/ T
- Bradley's Bromide* U- ?0 Q  P7 U, E0 S
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
  c2 }& V" R# m. @/ G- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric6 f9 D, k7 t9 U. Y* U9 l

: o! b4 {4 T. D* Z, u" D, \At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.+ I4 H& h7 A, v  N% U, Y- A0 X
- 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.
3 o% t3 x$ b. i: w+ h- }- Jeremy S. Anderson
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2 B& Q; G; @  ]) z7 u1 o" _One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.: e9 A! M& }9 v9 e9 g; d3 Y
- Elbert Hubbard
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2 n. h; }2 ]/ j( i3 C+ l- oAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.4 T  d! j- m6 i8 C7 I
- David Thornburg7 o4 ]) l" l. \% L2 @" @& N. U
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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.0 O5 X: x/ W* a( @3 ]5 b0 M
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word, |5 a! r9 I6 [7 P6 D# c$ v

3 Y; \% C! i9 S/ C( ]6 F, MBuild early and build often.3 @/ S  [2 e( ?& a
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
# R% x4 V! z9 d- Open source developer adage# ]) G8 O% M& g

( C, o7 D9 O0 G6 q9 O0 P* v) rWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.3 O( y! U5 b$ z) ]5 I2 N6 g( w& {" n  y
- Carl Sagan9 A, _, Z( m; U! i0 z5 K
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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.- k, o% w, s+ W6 `. ^
- Anonymous
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( q1 I/ i! _# _+ j3 h% AThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
8 |$ C5 F+ ~- T6 M2 P- Margaret Thatcher
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% ]# x; a4 H) ~( c! c/ @1 ~  X. A4 RThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
( b) Z# A7 P0 C# O' W- Jerry Olson
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6 B# N0 W, a- k: c+ M+ l- pThe 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." K( Q1 \$ f" ~/ S& d0 ^
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, F# u& l4 I: F- [0 h9 r, T3 `

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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
4 K* g3 \* q5 m+ b6 i0 ]* n* @- Arthur C. Clarke
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+ X7 c  ]/ j/ p& Z" y9 E+ kAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.* F: l+ N1 y' b' R8 \
- Gregory Benford
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% W$ ]; l4 N, V. S  J' nNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.% m7 U  I' ?! V$ @  D0 L+ o) h  Q
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
+ V  ^+ Z/ A; d8 O! M3 V! Q! z- Alan J. Perlis% U  Y% V+ Y! d) }

0 Z' ^% M% h, \; b+ |$ u0 BI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
) h  m4 G2 H$ k9 T" g" v  ^- Thomas Edison, N( p% n. b- i0 r

9 F9 V) \1 z* R- O1 T3 A* Y0 QGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.# d" G1 M$ K$ Q& H: n: 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 developed9 S5 m) _' R' z% ]
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.; Y3 T+ p2 y. u4 G3 `
- Senator Bob Dole3 P) Q# a" u2 t7 N$ [" l! N

1 X7 L* z  }) Y3 x7 T& `' P+ NComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.! g" O( w& j5 ~! a" x7 S- l) {. P
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy# _# G  i& a; H. p& @: N

9 Q+ {& A9 Z" n, V% lTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.! e- o- C  b: c, t% ?
- Andrew Heller, IBM$ S: X$ V! t7 X5 ^3 R. t+ m8 {

1 B- a7 I. g( S, k  Q4 rAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
# A. j  R/ C4 C4 N/ m2 p- j* U$ Z- 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?  M9 C) \2 W- y, ~0 `
- Al Gore on Y2K- b; t! `+ b4 y
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.$ M' w: g  U) S$ I* i. r2 S$ Y0 [
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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4 _+ K& v! S- x' vThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.  o0 h: o& t& 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.
1 H9 B3 E* s$ E6 ?5 [0 d- Linus Torvalds* X- U& Y; {+ F) F9 Z0 }

' O& p2 s# O  X4 rWindows is just DOS in drag.; }! Y$ l  f/ X1 A; {! d- b9 C( q
- Anonymous1 ]4 v# g; [/ G+ C2 A9 j  T# W
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.# [$ Y; n- U5 H6 E! p& q
- 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" U$ w7 h6 k" f7 k) P+ `+ K9 W- Thomas Edison( Z3 P5 x# n' T7 H5 N$ D, N

/ w2 e9 J& d, ^Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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