计算机Computers/Technology[英语名人名言]
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott AdamsThere are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy AlmesThere are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. AndersonIf you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his lifeGuide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
-- AnonymousIf you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- AnonymousMultimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory BremnerThe Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew BrownUsenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MABy the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above. -- Ken IversonSaying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy KawasakiI'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. LawrenceLive TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it. -- Mark LeeperConsidering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael MeissnerIn view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. -- Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live," U.S. television showThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry OlsonThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff RaskinDisclaimer - These opiini^H^H damn! ^H^H ^Q ^[ .... :w :q :wq :wq! ^d X ^? exit X Q ^C ^? :quitbye CtrlAltDel ~~q :~q logout save/quit :!QUIT ^[zz ^[ZZZZZZ ^H man vi ^ ^L ^[c ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T ? help helpquit ^D ^d man help ^C ^c help ?Quit ?q CtrlShftDel"Hey, what does this button d... -- Seen in a .signature fileThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. SkinnerIf unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. -- Joseph SnippUsenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene SpaffordIf addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. -- Rob StampfliMen have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David ThoreauTechnology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John TudorThose parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating Trains and Kamikaze Genes: Technological Literacy for the 1990's, describing the difference between computer hardware and software
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
-- AnonymousIf you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- AnonymousMultimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory BremnerThe Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew BrownUsenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MABy the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above. -- Ken IversonSaying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy KawasakiI'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. LawrenceLive TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it. -- Mark LeeperConsidering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael MeissnerIn view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. -- Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live," U.S. television showThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry OlsonThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff RaskinDisclaimer - These opiini^H^H damn! ^H^H ^Q ^[ .... :w :q :wq :wq! ^d X ^? exit X Q ^C ^? :quitbye CtrlAltDel ~~q :~q logout save/quit :!QUIT ^[zz ^[ZZZZZZ ^H man vi ^ ^L ^[c ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T ? help helpquit ^D ^d man help ^C ^c help ?Quit ?q CtrlShftDel"Hey, what does this button d... -- Seen in a .signature fileThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. SkinnerIf unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. -- Joseph SnippUsenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene SpaffordIf addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. -- Rob StampfliMen have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David ThoreauTechnology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John TudorThose parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating Trains and Kamikaze Genes: Technological Literacy for the 1990's, describing the difference between computer hardware and software