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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.' C6 r) Q, }) R4 \2 x
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum3 j0 Z% A2 \! x
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
9 b) z5 V* g" B- T.S. Elliot
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1 ?" I- F% P. P# G; |! k+ h640K ought to be enough for anybody.
, V6 M: s- B4 a. ^9 p9 N- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19816 o) K8 _* h4 L4 [) n. }6 F, d
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.4 G( x( f9 V, Y( x4 _) p
- B. F. Skinner- E: C, s4 {# b5 x) V

5 j5 J7 j8 |: A  b& A& h5 W7 `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.
+ y( Z* }* Y( U; {6 |  s- George Pompidou3 u3 V5 t. [3 @9 m# }" e
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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.! O9 [  x& k: I/ D& w: [# Q
- Anonymous
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2 B* v7 |) f3 U) LFor 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.
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/ p( Z" P, [  mComputers 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.
6 w6 b* e* j' U: T, s+ P- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: b9 e  K' ?3 M- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
& J2 R3 d4 S$ e' D: X+ {- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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; h- t( g! W% r# [If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.4 [3 J* g# `5 J7 u' j
- Scott Adams
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# D* X  Z: C: W0 vIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.5 j- j; \" k  ^& |3 z: k' Q$ U
- Anonymous7 \! m' m, [7 A, i( S3 b$ _
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.7 ~0 W+ e/ @* @4 E0 ]0 f
- Bradley's Bromide
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& W& E6 K, s1 C% sThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.+ h$ _% f) O2 G8 {$ v; p$ U. ~5 a8 @' D
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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2 F9 o# K5 S, T5 ~5 I1 q) s2 h: U! rAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.; B4 \: D3 G% [% v
- Anonymous' y' `7 R. J& q% m, u4 V: v) Y! V2 `

1 b! v$ B. S* d1 iThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.# `% r: Q- R. |' a( b1 j6 P% {* n
- Jeremy S. Anderson9 c2 L& u( e' K
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.6 Y% [. N5 D0 M5 k
- Elbert Hubbard, C( l( D+ ]9 n% t7 O# n! S/ ?
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
5 q: V: P- m( l8 b# a: V- David Thornburg5 Y$ j: {2 M, u& D* T
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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.( {! a* Z- q+ g3 q- b
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word; M# t# O" c7 W. I6 z/ f( }  K3 P

. n' \* {: O' p' d5 G6 g9 U/ vBuild early and build often.- r0 p/ j+ ~4 Y" B% u1 u
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9 H. Q+ O" D# j$ e$ l. q8 cRelease early and release often.5 h* I, K2 M6 F
- Open source developer adage
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4 x- J2 @, x- `' {( gWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
: A" W! U7 [5 a3 d6 z2 K- 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.
6 W- V( c, K) V0 r* |. @0 |- Anonymous1 k, m1 ?6 D, h5 e
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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.
. y: \2 W$ A# n7 }1 M* w- Margaret Thatcher
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4 J5 H1 S( t; Q/ Y7 xThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.$ v; K7 V) t6 M8 T* ~# C# Y' h
- Jerry Olson4 u: a& \/ p' A- ~7 ^' V6 R' M* p

8 V$ p; G# y  s( h; Z# {The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little., X" Y# H" z+ F, \
- Porterfield
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0 B, H8 `' u4 j) A# r6 YEverything that can be invented has been invented.) l9 i" i$ c$ @8 X; H$ h
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899: A2 u! F- \: ^* Q6 F* O- v

4 D" t4 G$ i) tGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
! z/ B3 o) c! o! a5 o- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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: M$ P( j# r" nAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
% k) ^6 K$ L$ F* d/ Z, ]. q( ^! z- Arthur C. Clarke9 _, x: b  ~3 S; ?! L7 c
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
/ Q3 r* B# j: T0 m* C3 y9 P9 }- Gregory Benford9 J4 p) j) t- X; W' B/ Y  K' w
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.7 o' X9 c4 J2 c: a+ Y4 s# P* T
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1 I* M0 Z2 B, l* R7 qA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.2 S% w5 V; e8 \8 i2 H
- Alan J. Perlis2 I" p! ~- L) E8 |

8 f. `5 [( R  X3 Z, r; pI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: P, f; G9 k9 I# O  m" x6 \
- Thomas Edison
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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.
0 W8 x+ S+ V% v6 y! 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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8 Y9 l5 @8 N0 tThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
, O* A" M( q! o+ m. I8 A3 g: m- Senator Bob Dole
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. e+ F0 a7 g/ v3 }! F; Q+ y; vComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.( w9 s( ~6 v, t% Y# H
- Popular Mechanics, 19490 u4 \& K2 C, `$ e
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
1 z9 o# C2 D/ e- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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" N5 }+ W: h, }9 Q8 T% R( q* }2 C! d4 }Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
2 l; t3 O6 u9 v" Z% M- Andrew Heller, IBM, z2 Q/ Z0 w. X$ M/ q$ I
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
, m- B! F1 O) n" s: y+ V: G% c6 L- 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?
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+ r+ M4 n  k: Q9 S; yThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent., d  r# P9 S4 x" p* v3 t
- Sydney Brenner in 1927/ a8 r! r6 e: `+ A$ c* C8 W) W

% Z  z. P: o  I& j& mThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.$ i- \' N; c( i; G0 ?
- Linus Torvalds& s' G* ^" w0 [& W
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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.
) m/ f" j- u* w- Linus Torvalds
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4 g8 G& ~, C; q7 a8 ~Windows is just DOS in drag.' i# s: h# B1 B, i0 P7 z! S3 F
- Anonymous$ X3 R0 {7 R, B- k1 ]+ {9 V1 q

5 ~) R  Z2 f/ Y. E" B/ wThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.1 o! `  u3 g: I* d# ^7 C
- 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.8 @! D* A4 j1 G- Z1 M4 H& H
- Thomas Edison& A& e: m% [5 T1 X- Q0 t
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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