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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.
& F( [- z% L/ E) e" H% M: S: R3 }8 Q- Andrew S. Tannenbaum, M* v% `) P3 f2 t6 @# F

, I( b9 @+ Y* Q0 AWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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2 }: b" V/ ^0 P9 t* O640K ought to be enough for anybody.% @  Z' ~$ ~7 j  X. c: k2 p
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19813 H/ C4 G9 C. T0 S6 U- X" G4 j

* z- n8 T3 K( H. W3 QThe 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.
" ?8 X% r6 B3 b$ b- George Pompidou# |0 K3 i" O/ Q# ?) K. O6 W" o

4 H' C* O, }1 b: i" C! z* bTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.2 R$ s& R& u  l) e
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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.
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, B& F/ o( {; c0 }, EComputers 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.& t* }& l/ d' h" n# a9 T
- Andy Rooney! h5 T) f% a$ Q5 j, X: b+ U

7 j5 `7 |, L. H; ?2 g) F' \In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.# F& e3 `; U- y, `; \
- Richard Power! Q+ L- s! v' D- E2 q7 m
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
; }# h) A# @1 H9 z* ^- 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.
9 g6 `4 O8 d% q2 f* `4 X) |- Scott Adams: d) M3 \& w1 I, `, a3 q; d& s8 r
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.9 P5 P# C' _% T8 N; G8 J% R
- Anonymous
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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.
9 h+ `; Y9 Z9 \6 |- 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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5 }4 p+ x4 s2 E; t7 rThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
" K- G: F' B( E( C0 f7 P- Jeremy S. Anderson% Q# k  I2 `; O( Y

" L7 L" ?3 Y7 N  t- l5 aOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.8 K7 F  X7 M7 V/ s! a# U- F
- Elbert Hubbard( W/ L( y3 {) c$ X$ k% s! J

3 c1 D! k$ _! Y0 |Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be./ K0 `$ @7 j0 K7 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.
& n7 I% K; a% @7 C2 x3 ]- Anonymous
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" Y3 H& z# T1 H5 H+ h( BSave early, save often.4 B5 L) ^9 H( R7 ^* H& d2 F' ^* X
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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$ y; M8 _% {% L1 y& Z0 NBuild early and build often.1 y4 k9 x3 i. v  y/ ]
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
' f# N; w/ Z( a) z: I, X) f9 x- 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.: s6 u( F2 c4 j1 [! t9 \
- Carl Sagan# u6 F0 S8 b: W) [- T* h; V8 e( w

7 a* |" J+ V3 k9 V0 }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.5 _  k( T! W- a
- Anonymous
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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.% k! E8 s; w( j. C, b# m
- Margaret Thatcher: u( Z$ d  o5 d0 ~8 ^- B8 u

/ B+ v% N) [$ J/ X8 JThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.% O% c, U. o, n
- Jerry Olson/ K; A* x0 Q% |" ~/ f* w) N- w

% s, I) m: O/ @5 N, a, R7 aThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.7 Q  F  Z" R7 {7 m; j! b3 {8 C
- Porterfield
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% h+ n$ {6 m- W, i% K; @. vEverything that can be invented has been invented.
1 S4 n- N1 a/ J+ k4 X- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899' d6 `; c- t( Y2 \. O

# Q, X: L. O6 [% bGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
+ S8 I; U+ E% r- [" x" g- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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3 S$ V6 F# }4 s& w/ v( ]Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
' Y4 Y1 J/ t, e8 W- Arthur C. Clarke
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% S" z8 d8 f% a2 K) V3 g% R$ g  kAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.- ?" b* ^$ i! G/ [
- Gregory Benford: D# n! c0 M$ r8 Y3 V/ m) ^  M  ^

& v# O9 u9 g( z9 BNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
9 G. r1 i% L# m3 x$ u- Alan J. Perlis: u1 }: X. v/ f9 j8 Z# K

5 t& [; ?' |: G5 Y, v8 C( Q( m4 VI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  @4 L4 z1 Y4 y* q3 [- r! C! r- Thomas Edison1 A/ ?/ s' O* f0 S& C7 i3 `6 u
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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.
. m. H/ V3 Q" Y& H) s+ N1 s; Z, j- 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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; R  k  |% ~6 \5 u8 nThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.0 S8 v( P9 W! j# ?+ @
- Senator Bob Dole! t0 P# J& T+ E8 K
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
9 u- ]- o' k% k- f, W5 a  O" ?- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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/ a: C9 C4 g( L4 K4 CTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
# M0 }: i( @/ C8 g, `- Andrew Heller, IBM: T+ @6 ?0 ?6 J& S( B+ ^

2 h/ {- Z# A$ Y# LAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.! c5 J- h5 a. x' P  W5 S% q" @! ?
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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6 M6 |3 ^& X; \How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?+ Q+ J; a$ s8 u1 }6 I2 x; [
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
: y4 V$ D" y- c/ z. A- Sydney Brenner in 1927- t7 X! q2 K$ p5 E( ^* J/ D) I7 |

) I7 \" z6 @9 l, u% G% DThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
8 @, p* F8 b! W( `- Linus Torvalds: w0 N7 b, b0 r6 P, f1 K2 |1 r

7 ~& X3 u- y5 t: T7 |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 F* }! T2 t; o" ^( v5 h, M3 R- Linus Torvalds
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& Z( P4 }+ j1 q( p7 q, u( xWindows is just DOS in drag.: X# S! @2 K# B' I) t% E
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.! W& T) l$ ~' z; W2 L( n2 K4 r# 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.( }# u( \! O7 L& @5 L
- Thomas Edison9 A( o" o' E$ Q5 r+ q& k3 }

) s* e% C: t+ B6 D; H' C( H9 R8 _Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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