计算机Computers/Technology[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-15 06:25:18

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If you have any trouble sounding condescending1, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams

 

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
-- Guy Almes

 

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson

 

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life

 

Guide 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.
-- Anonymous3

 

If 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.
-- Anonymous

 

Multimedia4? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner

 

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
-- Andrew Brown

 

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA

 

By 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 collapsing5. 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 analogous6 to the above.
-- Ken2 Iverson

 

Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki

 

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch7 absolutely, like a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence

 

Live 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 Leeper

 

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner

 

In 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 Miller8, "Saturday Night Live," U.S. television show

 

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson

 

There 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, 1977

 

Imagine 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 Raskin

 

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-- Seen in a .signature file

 

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner

 

If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill9 pens.
-- Joseph Snipp

 

Usenet is like a herd10 of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement11 when you least expect it.
-- Gene12 Spafford

 

If addiction13 is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment14, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive15 than cocaine16.
-- Rob Stampfli

 

Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau

 

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor

 

Those 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

 


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1 condescending avxzvU     
adj.谦逊的,故意屈尊的
参考例句：
  • He has a condescending attitude towards women. 他对女性总是居高临下。
  • He tends to adopt a condescending manner when talking to young women. 和年轻女子说话时，他喜欢摆出一副高高在上的姿态。
2 ken k3WxV     
n.视野，知识领域
参考例句：
  • Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
  • Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.
3 anonymous lM2yp     
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
4 multimedia BnSzdj     
adj.多种手段的，多媒体的；n.多媒体
参考例句：
  • Multimedia is the combination of computer and video technology.多媒体是计算机和视频技术的结合。
  • Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.亚当提出了多媒体应用的问题，从而引发了许多有益的讨论。
5 collapsing 6becc10b3eacfd79485e188c6ac90cb2     
压扁[平]，毁坏，断裂
参考例句：
  • Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
  • The rocks were folded by collapsing into the center of the trough. 岩石由于坍陷进入凹槽的中心而发生褶皱。
6 analogous aLdyQ     
adj.相似的；类似的
参考例句：
  • The two situations are roughly analogous.两种情況大致相似。
  • The company is in a position closely analogous to that of its main rival.该公司与主要竞争对手的处境极为相似。
7 epoch riTzw     
n.(新)时代；历元
参考例句：
  • The epoch of revolution creates great figures.革命时代造就伟大的人物。
  • We're at the end of the historical epoch,and at the dawn of another.我们正处在一个历史时代的末期，另一个历史时代的开端。
8 miller ZD6xf     
n.磨坊主
参考例句：
  • Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
  • The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。
9 quill 7SGxQ     
n.羽毛管；v.给（织物或衣服）作皱褶
参考例句：
  • He wrote with a quill.他用羽毛笔写字。
  • She dipped a quill in ink,and then began to write.她将羽毛笔在墨水里蘸了一下，随后开始书写。
10 herd Pd8zb     
n.兽群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…赶在一起
参考例句：
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见，只是人云亦云。
11 excrement IhLzw     
n.排泄物，粪便
参考例句：
  • The cage smelled of excrement.笼子里粪臭熏人。
  • Clothing can also become contaminated with dust,feathers,and excrement.衣着则会受到微尘、羽毛和粪便的污染。
12 gene WgKxx     
n.遗传因子，基因
参考例句：
  • A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
  • The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。
13 addiction JyEzS     
n.上瘾入迷，嗜好
参考例句：
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
14 detriment zlHzx     
n.损害；损害物，造成损害的根源
参考例句：
  • Smoking is a detriment to one's health.吸烟危害健康。
  • His lack of education is a serious detriment to his career.他的未受教育对他的事业是一种严重的妨碍。
15 addictive hJbyL     
adj.(吸毒等)使成瘾的，成为习惯的
参考例句：
  • The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
  • Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。
16 cocaine VbYy4     
n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）
参考例句：
  • That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
  • Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

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