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发表于 2004-11-7 12:51 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.* C. p" }/ ~* ?7 l* _3 a9 {
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?9 D% A8 N2 \8 d6 v, {) ?
- T.S. Elliot
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& s3 T6 R5 d2 @- B640K ought to be enough for anybody.+ n) ?& D) D, K8 f9 @! h' b
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981# R1 `; c8 m+ @5 W, P( O. S) f
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- j7 V- h+ M9 x- B. F. Skinner
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" J$ H% j( r: l- d/ CThere 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.+ D5 W$ b2 B* y
- George Pompidou, R/ p! F  J: k. t

. V& I6 a# D' B% S, I1 vTechnology 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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4 ~9 ^  M( ?- [; p7 i: d5 vFor 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.$ N! ~  \4 W$ _
- Anonymous4 v$ s+ W2 x! s
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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.
# g$ n# W2 i2 a: o2 h8 S- _* ?- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.4 r4 M1 @# O- R% I
- Richard Power5 s0 x% v1 O% x
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
# M: z- [- V9 q6 d: v- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943- m: P: P7 G( s& q" H6 n

6 F6 H+ v0 X0 ?- [! ^If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.  @3 i% @/ z' M6 j, }6 o
- Scott Adams
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! G8 U# f( F2 }2 O* ^In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
5 K/ E5 m9 P/ C1 V# i5 l- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.( i, _5 Q# i( J% x; |
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
7 ?$ N( h4 I" j, K4 P) P) K- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric" h- \2 w- M; U# z% V

1 W; @4 a7 o* @) @! P; B# g5 IAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.! x4 ], B6 v" V6 l0 l  \
- Anonymous
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+ W! k) U' Y. j% B' Z' f$ tThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.6 E5 }% y& r' C3 n
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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/ R! l' `- l! C7 x1 C7 X3 W$ e9 zOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.. C1 x. M& i: g& R5 ]. O
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
3 {" N7 {* e5 [! H( p- David Thornburg
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* p6 D2 m& E$ n8 U& p, Y4 @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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; ?* c( d5 f9 n4 h$ E% X( ]Save early, save often.2 D- }6 X) x! U3 C& g$ [  i: A$ t
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word8 ^) w, j# Z' [& ]6 b; O6 ~

7 i& T8 t2 ~; \* E( U9 p. x3 x% CBuild early and build often.
! M2 d/ ^% _% U5 }( F7 J5 y- Proprietary developer adage+ F2 c% s3 k- f3 }1 T

! D$ m, h6 Q; v# M3 RRelease early and release often.9 Q% d. K4 Y7 v7 s( l4 `
- Open source developer adage
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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.1 `2 K2 _" K( M3 U8 E+ t& A8 `
- Carl Sagan
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  W/ P2 D/ r" d) z( [1 UIf 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.: L& `5 ]6 ^) t2 j' _+ h. |/ X
- Anonymous, [* \3 M2 I" p$ f/ a- c# w
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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.
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2 t& x. {" k$ r8 _/ j) v* TThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.0 B5 Y2 L/ h' h6 U; L
- Jerry Olson
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, U" G' S+ U1 G7 v# V0 R- P+ i0 }8 tThe 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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, O4 V, \  i2 k% oEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- i+ E1 n6 P9 V! c- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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0 H  h; `5 L) }; ^+ X& F2 nGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
4 B3 k# e1 F+ ^: E- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.6 n; q  @0 `+ v! I
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
  Z, h! _8 I0 S' }7 `6 d& ?" K- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.! z& \: M6 i6 G" |0 p) j7 _
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.* ^: Q: r+ B2 Q3 t
- Alan J. Perlis
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! P' M4 }+ w/ F( e/ RI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.8 Y) ]. B, y' Z% S
- Thomas Edison  z/ {# ~2 f* Q+ y
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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.4 X: N" O$ E9 ?1 x9 n
- 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 a, f- D3 i0 R  p* r# A! a

3 I. {* s, `# s2 V! gThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.: P) r: ~* L3 r
- Senator Bob Dole
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1 u4 g5 ~* r. `. w7 P6 d7 ?; g/ BComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.0 c/ L( [8 k: C3 E
- Popular Mechanics, 19490 o2 F9 s1 F4 v8 I

6 u( w; c  u6 M+ n& M1 j# S1 I; ~ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.3 L5 j6 H( N4 Y3 J" q! i$ o6 O; o
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy# U" |7 q" p( @: M. i5 N3 C4 |
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.' D) Q$ s  z0 ?7 B- d
- Andrew Heller, IBM; {) g( g( T$ G
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.1 M. U; P1 P$ e  V1 w: L
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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# l- |+ f, `: fHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- |2 k; _$ M$ Z* B- B/ h- Al Gore on Y2K2 |* Q, J: g- s7 N* U4 O% s2 w! A
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
; H5 l# z& ^! Z! |- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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! Y3 E, L/ D6 {# ~4 K, AThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
8 |, y, T0 v4 `1 a- Linus Torvalds' J( N& m5 L+ i5 F$ f* \( P" C  ]

- V( ~0 n& i1 V! A3 UTo 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.
: S4 j2 o1 h' w- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.* v0 H1 f/ `. Z
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
& P+ ~, c- I# p* ?- 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.
, B! S- W' X( X2 Y) J0 ^3 v& z2 f$ o7 ~- Thomas Edison& [6 F$ V* R' B9 V

$ D" I! m" w; K% l1 \3 JEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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