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1、生命中,不断地有人离开或进入。于是,看见的,看不见的;记住的,遗忘了。生命中,不断地有得到和失落。于是,看不见的,看见了;遗忘的,记住了。然而,看不见的,是不是就等于不存在?记住的,是不是永远不会消失?Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” - Pablo Picasso计算机没有什么用处。它们唯一能做的就是告诉你答案。-Pablo Picasso“Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax.” - Zalman Stern分布式文件系统是一场残忍的骗局。-Zalman Stern“

2、A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.” - Mitch Ratcliffe人类有史以来的所有发明中-也许不包括手枪或龙舌兰酒-计算机是让你犯错误最多最快的。-Mitch Ratcliffe“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make i

3、t easier to do dont need to be done.” - Andy Rooney计算机使很多事情更容易做到,但其中大部分并不是必需。-Andy Rooney“Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions” - Laurent Gasser计算机并不解决问题,它们只是执行解决方案。-Laurent Gasser“Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race hor

4、ses and women.” - Lord Kelvin如果大幅增加费用换来的只是性能可疑的提升,这种情况仅仅出现在赛马和女人身上才是让人可以容忍的。-Lord Kelvin“Memory is like an orgasm. Its a lot better if you dont have to fake it.” - Seymore Cray (on virtual memory内存就象性高潮。不作假会好一点。-Seymore Cray (对虚拟内存的评价“Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is to

5、o dif ficult for the Computer Scientist.” - F. L. Bauer所谓软件工程就是指计算机科学中对计算机科学家来说太难的那一部分。-F. L. Bauer“Base eight is just like base ten really, if youre missing two fingers” - Tom Lehrer八进制和十进制其实也差不多,如果你少了两根手指头的话。-Tom Lehrer“There are 10 kinds of p eople in the world, those that understand binary and t

6、hose that dont.”“There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that dont, and those that confuse it with binary.”这个世界上有 10 种人,其中有些是能理解二进制的,有些则不懂。这个世界上有 10 种人,其中有些是能理解三进制的,有些不懂,有些则把它和二进制弄混淆了。“If you torture the data enough, it will confess” - Ronald Coase如果你拷问数据到一定程度

7、,它自然会坦白的。-Ronald Coase“As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error” - Weisert据我们所知,我们的计算机还没有未被检验出的错误。-Weisert“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.”如果你交给某人一个程序,你将折磨他一整天;如果你教某人如

8、何编写程序,你将折磨他一辈子。“Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very goo d; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.” - Dick Brandon文档就如同“性爱”,当它好的时候,简直美妙得无与伦比;当它糟糕的时候,又糟得一塌糊涂。-Dick Brandon“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” - Mic

9、hael Sinz编程就好比“性爱”,一个错误就能让你一辈子不得安宁。-Michael Sinz“Perfection is achieved not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothi ng left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery无一分可增不叫完美,无一分可减才是。-Antoine de Saint-Exupery“Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, be

10、cause God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engin eer.” - Fred Brooks爱因斯坦经常说必定存在对自然的简单解释,因为“上帝”不(应是反复无常或独断专行的。软件工程师可没有这样的信念作安慰。-Fred Brooks“Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.” - Dave Platt 管理一堆高级程序员就象放牧一群猫。-Dave Platt“If the code and the comments disa

11、gree, then both are probably wrong.” - Norm Schryer倘若代码和注释不一致,那么很可能两者都是错的。-Norm Schryer“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.” - Alan J. Perlis如果你的计算机说英语,那么它很可能是日本造的。-Alan J. Perlis“/* You are not expected to understand this */” - comment in the context-switching code of th

12、e V6 Unix kernel这一句比较让人郁闷,还是不翻译出来的好:-V6 UNIX kernel的context switching代码中的注释“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance” - Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory随机数的产生实在太重要了,不能够让它由偶然性来决定。-Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory“Before software can be reu

13、sable it first has to be usable.” - Ralph Johnson在软件可重用之前先得可使用。-Ralph Johnson“To err is human, but for a real disaster you need a computer.”人的过失会带来错误,但要制造真正的灾难还得用计算机。“Error, keyboard not found - press F1 to continue.” - BIOS system message错误,没有发现键盘-按 F1 键继续。-BIOS系统的提示信息“When all else fails, read the

14、 instructions.” - L. Iasellio走投无路时再去阅读说明。-L. Iasellio“The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.” - Linus TorvaldsPowerPC的内存管理可以用来吓唬小孩子。-Linus Torvalds“Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.” - Steve Wozniak永远不要信任那些你无法将其抛出窗外的电脑。-Steve Wozniak“The most l

15、ikely way for the worl d to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. Thats where we come in; were computer professionals. We cause accidents.” - Nathaniel Borenstein许多专家认为,导致世界毁灭最可能的原因是意外事件。那正是我们在做的;我们是计算机专业人士,我们正在制造意外事件。-Nathaniel Borenstein“The disadvantage of working over networks is tha

16、t you cant so easily go into someone elses office and rip their bloody heart out” - Jim McDonald将网络引入工作后的缺点是,走进某人的办公室并将他剥皮拆骨远不如以前那么方便了。-Jim McDonald“I invented it, Bill made it famous” - David Bradley (wrote the code for Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the IBM PC我创造了它,比尔则让它声名远扬-David Bradley (他在 IBM PC 上写出Ctrl-Alt-Delete 的相关代码“Unix is user-friendly. Its just very selective about who