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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.
$ B2 g2 v. e- V& X- Andrew S. Tannenbaum" r# J' T" r% G9 J7 F; K
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
& v0 A) J: L5 E- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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9 |1 v: Y$ S+ ?2 t  T7 y; ^The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.9 u. L- M6 v  a- r; M: P0 w" B* _
- George Pompidou
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3 a# l8 m2 {( u, {) KTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand., m0 G1 d7 v( `; v% W
- Anonymous, D* Y. l% D+ T  s) c" |

1 Y# L" L3 B. z) C# _& H' U+ 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.4 I! u9 L+ t" Y5 o, Q5 a
- Anonymous
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# {0 `7 t1 y# T( Z0 W; zComputers 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., M; b$ e" a6 H9 h
- Andy Rooney6 }/ m2 U) B4 D

1 E. T) }% M; K9 u0 s) O" h& `In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.; K- q; m' U; {2 h) e2 k  z- v
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
& s" [$ c8 C; r' }3 M) B* D- 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.! @6 ~2 m4 D6 n' c& L5 G: A
- Scott Adams& h  h- J0 H4 H* c& l7 h

1 |- S$ T; i2 n* _0 x# h5 u5 IIn 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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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.. e' ^3 y/ [6 p
- 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.6 T, w6 h5 ^% @, g
- 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.
8 Q1 r! K6 H& W' I2 |3 w4 @- 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.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
3 Q" j7 F3 h8 e# \) q# Y2 s- David Thornburg
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4 `+ }/ P6 ]7 q2 GThose 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 Y) i  D0 ?& F
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
1 `5 z+ M& r- [0 |# B2 n0 |" L- Proprietary developer adage4 _, R1 e, }9 o" t9 S
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Release early and release often.4 Y. T6 I" [' c: {, r( {: A  c
- Open source developer adage8 {& ^; s' [* o* a" l4 z- [1 G/ D' d' h

4 b: R0 k0 W4 Y5 oWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
+ p$ L$ Q# p% a5 O6 ~- 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.
" r7 D9 m9 L! W- Anonymous
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3 X' Q  ^( p: L  O; e  S& t9 U1 _6 CThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.# y" N* C" U" t+ _! \& N3 h
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
; ?' t" b# L- p+ I3 ~- Jerry Olson
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8 j6 R% y8 u" ^5 wThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.8 {7 T$ d; p2 `" U6 ^
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.; p5 A& n; w' Q' L' V( U( {7 b( C4 T
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18993 m' W4 q2 ]& _) Y8 i$ Y1 G

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- Fairchild Research and Development, 19693 I. {/ m, ~: k0 \
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
2 M' L- d+ W/ O- Arthur C. Clarke
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, k+ v  v6 G6 n  yAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.- ]5 e& R2 H2 F3 a( {0 D
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.1 w4 H' T' U. O  |, I3 l  p
- Anonymous
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( W9 {. F5 B5 T9 n# u6 n- {A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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( Z6 g9 R" i7 T2 M8 ]) r0 L! P: _I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.. \3 y' v; J; g
- Thomas Edison
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! f  P- b  d1 A- k9 vGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.; ~. B* z6 w3 @% n5 `! s0 h
- 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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/ f+ m/ M1 Q" n" }" GThe 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.( c! Z2 O4 r9 P1 X  E1 \9 k% A5 m
- Popular Mechanics, 1949& U6 X% `$ O7 b" ^9 x

' \& Q  g5 a+ t. x+ | From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
6 F0 R) \/ x9 c! k# C3 a* j( |- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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( q2 X7 o* G3 L2 L" hTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.. k+ Q+ z1 ?# W/ B
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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+ O6 \+ Z; C4 T) M( A1 MHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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$ _, b. L! J" c' j5 \+ PThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.6 X( |4 y5 c( v7 Q
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.' g6 r1 |. ^4 ^! o0 m
- Linus Torvalds
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0 u% R1 P" T% L7 u+ w9 e2 _- a0 JTo 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.6 b2 g  f2 r; m  |2 s' Y
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6 t7 o1 w+ L+ Y: YThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
0 a' [/ H, I5 z3 J- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
8 x" w  ]7 Y0 l* p3 Y8 z) j2 {- Thomas Edison' l# J, r! s6 ~8 |# r* [
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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