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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# @) ~3 E( }/ r
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
9 J6 k5 J, I& a& h4 R2 m$ _- T.S. Elliot
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$ A5 X$ }( `( m/ N8 O9 x0 o" F  |/ T640K ought to be enough for anybody.. z7 S- z2 Z6 x7 }! W/ Z
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981' [; r, i% q- l( Y& y( H

. ]% @' t3 [8 l- i. D- kThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.) T1 B  ?9 D4 x7 R( L6 i
- B. F. Skinner2 w& X; |: i, {: B

* E& r% d+ x% c' Q- ~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.
, S  e% z, N' Y" E9 Y- George Pompidou, g. }* D( `5 F; v, }( b' G* }  v

) f1 g+ }4 n$ \# p" b  w7 tTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
9 \* L2 u5 I8 u1 ~0 O1 j. P- Anonymous1 I6 d: P! Z& T: y
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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.* k6 Y) S1 \) _5 d$ z5 Z
- Anonymous
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: g, O8 ]  B# c4 e1 Y4 {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.' h- r& S0 m# W3 x8 }
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
% y3 d. E4 `' ^# ^- Richard Power6 t+ J/ D1 A' j

* G) v& w& X. Q) {I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." \/ H" s9 ]+ e  t
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943' v: Z- Z( `' [( k( \) ?2 e
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.: P7 d( f: I; y' H  M# K
- Scott Adams
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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.
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; A/ o$ o+ p9 ]3 [If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
# v: s/ e( ]0 A- Bradley's Bromide. Q1 ~# B2 p( q/ |8 n% T
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
, }" c2 N+ t4 i, F8 X- 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.8 k+ V- U4 g/ `" ]1 U0 Q  t
- Anonymous8 A  h; `  m  ]! A7 f/ X
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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.) H7 H% x. D( ~  h: m1 E/ e; ]$ r
- Jeremy S. Anderson& F# `* t  q( i6 {, W' R

+ r9 I/ h) g; e" L; OOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
+ g! e: @9 s, c/ J, {4 V; n8 C- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be." W" x5 |2 D6 A2 a) Q
- David Thornburg6 v* w+ f2 L0 q- n

, {! [) W3 o& ^6 E3 J. g+ q4 {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.5 M4 F: J+ f5 D1 g/ i
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word! g* @# r* _! s' M3 p; F/ d) c$ I
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Build early and build often.
9 H" O# F5 ~+ c% k2 A' a- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.; K. w5 |5 l8 d' j9 q8 ^4 i8 K
- Open source developer adage# c% A! _: [9 b- E) e; B# g

1 S3 B  U4 o$ n; `+ O8 E9 }We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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.7 Y& {$ w  I- o, D) a, v* _
- 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.# d# O% L" l& S8 ~; x& w4 g( E
- Margaret Thatcher! i8 E% f7 F5 z: |* f  K
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon." Z$ @# F& l2 A3 L2 W( g! W& i
- Jerry Olson
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
1 t; R8 V8 p: }# s0 r0 s% x4 {- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.. L9 S/ [! c' v
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899( \) ~# c  g2 D; b- q  X' E5 w

8 b0 [/ n. y- c5 S1 [" @# |( ]+ oGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
& i) A2 a" E/ ?( ~8 r' r% c: E' o( Z- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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4 o. o' E( R2 C; \Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.5 o7 p8 s0 R# |% `  o4 W& s
- Arthur C. Clarke
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; g. l/ i' P% x5 UAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.: r" B/ X% B- D3 N3 Q7 y
- Gregory Benford. i8 ?# g+ \  ^$ a9 L- X( w" J& M
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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' U; e8 i4 t/ w4 H0 N1 ~6 O( AA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.: Z' |- F9 h, n  T4 t& Q' P
- Alan J. Perlis; O# H; T& R) L

2 a  T7 q3 c5 ~I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
% v$ c/ K: }0 s/ o4 w4 s- Thomas Edison
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: H1 \& ?- z! a/ d) H' ?Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
& W, V0 G( p6 n$ c- 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$ v7 H+ w0 @" a( Y' }3 C* s; w) k
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.0 H0 H5 x0 v% _, q' t9 c6 }
- Senator Bob Dole% e9 {) g. [# w8 o! m

. {: H  Z1 ~+ W. v$ E( ZComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.' s* y+ e5 D; G5 P' S$ {8 B3 p
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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# M, `8 ^7 R; A; k! }7 ~ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it./ U+ I, K" }7 b3 l
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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8 w2 P& i6 |7 V7 V; _7 \$ G8 ?. ZTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
$ B7 f( J& G, x% V2 b! _; q- Andrew Heller, IBM7 O$ ~; W- l6 V) F2 E

$ F$ |! ]1 w! x0 b1 q# XAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.8 [5 K; T! b7 z+ _/ e: j1 |
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos' q: A# T4 w9 @, r& h

1 {; B% v! Y; r% i( sHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
* x: r$ ^* v, R8 k; C8 r- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
9 U% n1 w8 J% {0 W2 ^' R- Sydney Brenner in 1927' Y+ }. A/ T) G# M

5 _/ P4 J. i* p" oThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.* F& K1 X, @, P1 A0 Y
- Linus Torvalds* T* y% R0 y2 E* I. @+ ^# [
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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., U* k( D9 N- E# @1 r# x# E
- Linus Torvalds
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, x: n& E* z2 C3 rWindows is just DOS in drag.7 \# a; K% ]" V, {$ W0 ~9 U
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- K6 J. e) K, Q0 a$ K( U8 \- 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.
+ N6 e: C- [+ e3 M- Thomas Edison& [3 u9 `" n9 e$ K2 g  Y

0 {7 V1 f0 J/ H% j; uEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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