Glazy Maze

难得见张公子悱恻缠绵。

我看到他的MV，是在稍晚。《You are not alone》。因为歌的旋律和里面那些天使翅膀、伊甸园之类的背景，我觉得他是个很温情、很纯净的人——或者说，希望成为那样的人。后来，我找到了那个被周星驰致敬过的MV，《Remember the time》。因为我那时正迷NBA，所以我认出了配角敲锣的魔术师约翰逊。但当时，令我感觉最奇怪的是，和前一首歌不一样，这个人快若旋风，动若烈火。

如今想起来，他的所有MV都极其绚丽、诡异而百转千回。我可以理解那个时代，我周围的人为什么迷恋他——那时代布满我们世界的，都是一些美女沙滩之类的弱智MV，听的都是一些僵如木偶的歌手。迈克尔·杰克逊，就像《Remember the time》里一样，变了一个戏法——世界原来不只是什么吐火、敲锣这些单调的娱乐。他推开了一扇五彩斑斓的门，载歌载舞。我后来炫耀的让别人看《Remember the time》时，别人的反映和我差不多：

“妈的，原来MV也可以这样搞？”

网络资源发达了之后，要找他的东西非常容易。因为爱他的人那么多，每个爱他的人都愿意分享他的东西。我看到了一些他早期的东西，很轻快，像黑人蓝调。后来开始掺一些摇滚的东西，再就都市流行乐的路数。听过很多他的东西后，会觉得无法对此人加以形容。如果一个歌手嗓音优美，你可以说他天赋好；如果一个歌手唱功无敌，你可以说他悟性高；如果再加上舞蹈出众，你可以说他很努力（比如，现在许多人都以此来形容台湾的某几位）。

可是他远远超出这些。看他载歌载舞时，你很容易得出结论。就像老派几位爵士乐大师一样，他的现场远远比CD牛叉几万个等级。那些演出不是机械排练然后按部就班推出来的。那些是随机应变的灵感。如果你常看足球场上黑人天才们的盘带，或是街头篮球的表演，或是黑人音乐家们玩儿爵士，你会感觉到那些东西：他们可以随意控制节奏、颜色与声音，使之斑斓圆润。

而在这方面，迈克尔·杰克逊又是空前的一个怪物。

哪怕他有一天嗓子被毁到声如破锣，他还是独一无二的。节奏感、韵律、随机应变的灵感，这些东西让他有别于常人。随便举个例子。在他之后，我看到过许多人试图模仿他的霹雳舞太空步，试图模仿他的舞蹈和风度。但是，绝大多数，看来都行尸走肉。随便找一盘他的演唱会，看到他出场后一言不发震晕多少人，看他开场后随意几下扭摆之后，你都很容易心悦诚服。他的肢体语言，不等他张口，就已经是音乐了。

如前所述，他的MV华丽异常，而且每个MV都可以延伸成一个小说或一幕意味深长的电影。我相信，在他之前，应该有人动过类似的念头，但大体上来说，似乎没人比他更撑得起这么一台MV。他的歌，以及他无处不在的舞影，可以撑住一段很长的MV，让它鲜活起来。我不知道在他之前，有没有一个类似的人拍出类似质地的MV，来使音乐在电视上传播到如此的地步，但以我所见，他的某些MV，虽然年代久远，但至今无法超越。

这和技术手段无关，纯粹是人的能力。他的背景、天才和释放才华的能力，使围绕他来塑造影像世界成为可能。他能够使画面感和音乐旋律的美妙合而为一臻于至高。而这个时代，那些出了录音棚唱歌还不如KTV水准的，一到现场就走音的歌手们，显然完全胜任不了这种任务。

21世纪之后，我周围听他歌的人少了许多。他成为了经典。所谓经典就是，有许多旋律你耳熟能详，但你不知道唱者是谁——需要有人提醒，你才会“啊，原来是他呀”。我最时常听得到的曲子，是《We are the world》和《Heal the world》——可能因为这两首足够公益的缘故。。

在我概念里，这两首，尤其是后一首歌，时常和约翰·列侬的《Imagine》放在一处。虽然旋律和调子大大不同，但他们都有一个类似的核心主题。《Imagine》在谈论想象这个世界变好，想象世界和平，让大家去除贪婪和饥饿，敢于做个梦想家。 《We are the world》则无条件的相信孩子，相信孩子可以让世界有一个美好光明的未来。《Heal the world》有一个满是孩子的MV版本，而主题依然是永远老套但永远真诚的：让世界变好一点，多一点关爱、互助与和平。

最动人的地方是，我小时候听这两首歌时，深感励志，深感未来世界是蓝天白云。可是随着年龄渐大，我越来越觉得世界的无趣，不如意者十常八九——相信有这种想法的人非只我一个。我相信，列侬和杰克逊，他们所经历的远比我多，所见的令人厌倦的现实也多得很。但是，他们还是在歌唱着——在我想象中，是负痛歌唱着——一些最美好的东西。我有些朋友，相当偏激一点，认为他们是伪善。但是，从结果来说，这几首歌最后传递到的，都是这个调子：相信未来，相信每个人携手来实现梦想，相信世界和平，相信孩子。

怎么说呢？我理解为，这是一种近于天真的勇敢和理想主义。列侬和杰克逊音乐上的路数和风格大不一样。但是，他们都是各自领域的划时代人物，而且，都在个人的影响力大到一定程度后，试图以自己的言行来给予世界一些积极的影响——虽然这些言行单纯到近乎天真，与现实世界的算计、利益与残忍来说简直像孩子的涂鸦画一样不现实，可是他们毕竟在这样歌唱——就像死于纳粹集中营里的安妮·弗兰克姑娘说：“因为世界虽然这样，我还是相信人在内心里其实是善良的。”

如果依照影响的人数来算，他也许是这个星球历史上，影响最大的歌舞者。他和迈克尔·乔丹以及其他同时代伟大黑人一起，使黑人才华和黑人文化经过商业而渗透世界。他把时代推入彩色MV。他把歌与舞与流行乐推到了一个匪夷所思的高度。他是流行乐之王。他和猫王一样，影响了时代的审美、趣味和艺人地位。

世界上曾经出现过一些人。他们未必是唱歌的，但你会觉得他们异于时代，异于常人。因此，在某些方面，他们简直是神，但在更多方面——比如，日常与人相处 ——他们会茫然不知所措。当你看MV、演唱会录象或听CD时，迈克尔·杰克逊根本就不是人。他能够展现一些虚空魔幻的境界。可是，落实到日常生活，他似乎并不那么自如。有许多很聪明精通世务的人，能够在各个领域从心所欲，适应各种环境。迈克尔·杰克逊，许多人说他的世界是个十二岁孩子的世界，似乎更适应舞台、孩子、人群的注视和镜头。就像我小时候玩的游戏一样：因为他太异于常人，因此，扰攘繁杂的地球可能不适合他生活。他更适合生活在月亮、影像世界，或是其他虚空世界里——比如，他自己撒的那把金沙里。

所以，应该说，他回到了他自己的领域——《You are not alone》的伊甸园，他歌唱过的天堂与至善世界，他行走的太空或月亮里，以及那个全场天真欢唱《We are the world》的天真时代里。我们接下来的生活，将是一个又一个我们儿时熟知的经典人物死去的年代。而迈克尔·杰克逊，在所有的旧影像里，在我们所不知道的太空里漫步，而且在某个阳光明朗的过去教导我们很天真的相信，“We are the world，We are the ones who make a brighter day so let's start giving。”

不过其实我原来就是想写那样一部小说，上半段写那个满是瘴气和云雾的密林，无非要给结局时商博良和那个女人的凝望铺好一个舞台。他眼睛里看到的是另外一个女人的影子，所以微微地笑了，她眼睛里看到的是一个男人的往事，但是看不真切。

这是一个男人们的故事，彭黎、祁烈和商博良，其中商博良是个旁观者，他的故事只是为了那些犹疑的男人做背书和注脚，是说男人对于爱情的自私、惶恐和脆弱，对于女人的介于游戏和依恋之间的感情，为了这个目的，我把云州写成一个陷阱和泥潭似的存在，巫女们细软的胳膊像是新发的藤条那样美好，带着诱惑，缓缓召唤，舞蹈总是催情，歌声总是缥缈，然而你走进去，里面就是黑沼那样的泥淖。

他们一个接一个心甘情愿的沦陷了，这是个温柔乡，他们想用男人的小智慧在迷陷之后再逃出去，但是纷纷失败了。就像祁烈，百转千折，最后回到那个已经面目全非的女人身边，亲眼看着她死去，心口爬出当年定情时的一对青蝎子。

小时候我的目标是成为一个007那样的男人，漂流四方，开最快的车，泡最漂亮的妞儿，对那个坏蛋一枪爆头。然后再去下一站。

男人的心大概就是这样，在你不爱任何人的时候，它看起来很广大，能塞下和无数女人的记忆。在你爱某个人的时候，它的空间嗖的就缩小到只能容纳一个女人的大小，所以祁烈就必须回头，他心里装着蛊母，而商博良的心里装着那个青玉色的瓶子。

嗯，这就是所谓《商博良》的故事，一切的一切都是一层外衣，什么法国考古学家啦，九州啦，云荒啦，龙蛇啦，无非是说男人的怯懦和最后的拼搏而已。

Computing

1. "I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them."
   – Isaac Asimov
2. "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
   – Emo Philips
3. "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
   – Edsger W. Dijkstra
4. "The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before."
   – Bill Gates
5. "Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases."
   – Norman Augustine
6. "Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container."
   – Nathan Myhrvold
7. "All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can’t get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer."
   – IBM Manual, 1925
8. "Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards."
   – Alan Bennett
9. "Physics is the universe’s operating system."
   – Steven R Garman
10. "It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow."
    – Craig Bruce

Knowledge

11. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
    – Albert Einstein
12. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
    – Stephen Hawking
13. "The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing."
    – Socrates
14. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
    – Benjamin Franklin
15. "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance."
    – Confucius
16. "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
    – Ludwig Wittgenstein
17. "Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
    – Mitchell Kapor

Users

18. "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it."
    – Linus Torvalds
19. "From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request."
    – P.Williams
20. "Where is the ‘any’ key?”
    – Homer Simpson, in response to the message, “Press any key"
21. "Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind."
    – Donald Knuth
22. "There is only one problem with common sense; it’s not very common."
    – Milt Bryce
23. "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
    – Bill Gates
24. "Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."
    – Donald E.Knuth

Internet

25. "The Internet? We are not interested in it."
    – Bill Gates, 1993
26. "The best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections."
    – Matthew Austern

Professionals

27. "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents."
    – Nathaniel Borenstein
28. "Pessimists, we’re told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
    – Bob Lewis
29. "In a room full of top software designers, if two agree on the same thing, that’s a majority."
    – Bill Curtis
30. "It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter."
    – Nathaniel S.Borenstein
31. "Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head."
    – Charles M.Strauss
32. "If you think you are worth what you know, you are very wrong. Your knowledge today does not have much value beyond a couple of years. Your value is what you can learn and how easily you can adapt to the changes this profession brings so often."
    – Jose M.Aguilar

Programming

33. "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
    – Abelson and Sussman
34. "Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom — you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests."
    – Ryan Campbell
35. "We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users."
    – Jeff Atwood
36. "Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul."
    – John Carmack
37. "It’s OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn’t need to figure out code. You should be able to read it."
    – Steve McConnell
38. "If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ‘lines produced’ but as ‘lines spent.’"
    – Edsger Dijkstra
39. "Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined."
    – Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
40. "Before software should be reusable, it should be usable."
    – Ralph Johnson
41. "If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess."
    – Rod Michael
42. "Looking at code you wrote more than two weeks ago is like looking at code you are seeing for the first time."
    – Dan Hurvitz
43. "It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."
    – Alan Perlis
44. "Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system; the rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping."
    – Mary Shaw
45. "If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some."
    – Alan Perlis
46. "How rare it is that maintaining someone else’s code is akin to entering a beautifully designed building, which you admire as you walk around and plan how to add a wing or do some redecorating. More often, maintaining someone else’s code is like being thrown headlong into a big pile of slimy, smelly garbage."
    – Bill Venners
47. "Code generation, like drinking alcohol, is good in moderation."
    – Alex Lowe

Development

48. "Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance."
    – Jon Franklin
49. "A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete."
    – Terry Baker
50. "When you are stuck in a traffic jam with a Porsche, all you do is burn more gas in idle. Scalability is about building wider roads, not about building faster cars."
    – Steve Swartz
51. "Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design — designing too early what a program should do."
    – Paul Graham
52. "Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are."
    – Danny Thorpe
53. "The best way to predict the future is to implement it."
    – David Heinemeier Hansson
54. "We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on."
    – David Hubel
55. "On two occasions I have been asked, ‘If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
    – Charles Babbage
56. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
    – Albert Einstein
57. "Today, most software exists, not to solve a problem, but to interface with other software."
    – IO Angell
58. "Good specifications will always improve programmer productivity far better than any programming tool or technique."
    – Milt Bryce
59. "The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice."
    – Richard Moore

Quality

60. "Don’t document the problem, fix it."
    – Atli Björgvin Oddsson
61. "As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications."
    – Dave Parnas
62. "If the code and the comments do not match, possibly both are incorrect."
    – Norm Schryer
63. "I think it’s a new feature. Don’t tell anyone it was an accident."
    – Larry Wall
64. "If you don’t handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system."
    – Anders Hejlsberg
65. "When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code."
    – Richard Pattis
66. "In a software project team of 10, there are probably 3 people who produce enough defects to make them net negative producers."
    – Gordon Schulmeyer
67. "I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
    – Alan Perlis
68. "Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence."
    – Edsger Dijkstra

Programming Languages

69. "Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It’s all fun and games until you forget about one of them."
    – anonymous Usenet user
70. "There’s no obfuscated Perl contest because it’s pointless."
    – Jeff Polk
71. "Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS."
    – Alan Kay
72. "There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation."
    – Bertrand Meyer
73. "It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn’t have written it!"
    – Mark Andreesen, speaking of the HTML tag BLINK
74. "Web Services are like teenage sex. Everyone is talking about doing it, and those who are actually doing it are doing it badly."
    – Michelle Bustamante
75. "Perl: The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption."
    – Keith Bostic
76. "I didn’t work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it’s not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.”
    – Yukihiro Matsumoto, aka “Matz", creator of Ruby
77. "XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language."
    – Charles Simonyi
78. "BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing."
    – Seymour Papert
79. "It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trivial details of a program — such as where its bugs are."
    – David Keppel
80. "UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."
    – Dennis Ritchie
81. "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems."
    – Jamie Zawinski

Security

82. "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image."
    – Stephen Hawking
83. "The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards."
    – Gene Spafford
84. "Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer."
    – Eric Raymond
85. "Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain."
    – Kevin Mitnick
86. "If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology."
    – Bruce Schneier
87. "Hoaxes use weaknesses in human behavior to ensure they are replicated and distributed. In other words, hoaxes prey on the Human Operating System."
    – Stewart Kirkpatrick
88. "Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers."
    – Chris Pirillo

Companies

89. "I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect."
    – Linus Torvalds
90. "Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress."
    – Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
91. "In an information economy, the most valuable company assets drive themselves home every night. If they are not treated well, they do not return the next morning."
    – Peter Chang
92. "It’s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive."
    – Steve McConnell
93. "I’m not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn’t need an interpreter."
    – Nicholas Petreley

Predictions

94. "Two years from now, spam will be solved."
    – Bill Gates, 2004
95. "The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years."
    – John McAfee, 1988
96. "Computer viruses are an urban legend."
    – Peter Norton, 1988
97. "In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams."
    – Grady Booch
98. "I don’t know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran."
    – CA Hoare, 1982
99. "In the future, computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tonnes."
    – Popular mechanics, 1949
100. "I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years."
     – Bill Gates, 1994
101. "Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia."
     – Arthur Summerfield, 1959, United States Post

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines. There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters."

As Bill Gates once warned, computers have indeed become our silicon masters, pervading nearly every aspect of our modern lives. As a result, some of the greatest minds of our time have pondered the significance of computers and software on the human condition. Following are 101 great quotes about computers, with an emphasis on programming, since after all this is a software development site.

Computers

1. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
   (Pablo Picasso)
2. "Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."
   (Sam Ewing)
3. "They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."
   (Janet Reno)
4. "That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer."
   (Paul Leary)
5. "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
   (Robert X. Cringely)

Computer Intelligence

6. "Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they', I mean ‘computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"
   (Dave Barry)
7. "I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS."
   (Larry DeLuca)
8. "The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim."
   (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
9. "It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute."
   (Marvin Minsky)

Trust

10. "The city's central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"
    (C3PO)
11. "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
    (Steve Wozniak)

Hardware

12. "Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked."
    (Jeff Pesis)

Software

13. "Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves."
    (Alan Kay)
14. "I've finally learned what ‘upward compatible' means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes."
    (Dennie van Tassel)

Operating Systems

15. "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)
16. "19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM"
    (End of the word according to Unix–2^32 seconds after January 1, 1970)
17. "Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck."
    (Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of the art in OS security, 2003)
18. “Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.‘ “
    (Dave Barry)

Internet

19. "The Internet? Is that thing still around?"
    (Homer Simpson)
20. "The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit."
    (Nytwind)
21. "Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare."
    (Blair Houghton)

Software Industry

22. "The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."
    (Henry Petroski)
23. "True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it."
    (Timm Martin)
24. "It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets."
    (Alan Cooper)
25. "It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins."
    (Lou Gerstner)
26. "We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated."
    (Bumper sticker)

Software Demos

27. "No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved."
    (Mark Gibbs)

Software Patents

28. "The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them."
    (Linus Torvalds)

Complexity

29. "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."
    (Brian Kernigan)
30. "Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."
    (Ray Ozzie)
31. "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
    (C.A.R. Hoare)
32. "The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple."
    (Grady Booch)

Ease of Use

33. "Just remember: you're not a ‘dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who–though technically expert–couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it."
    (Walter Mossberg)
34. "Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly'… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly' on the cover."
    (Bill Gates)
35. "There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone."
    (Bjarne Stroustrup)

Users

36. "Any fool can use a computer. Many do."
    (Ted Nelson)
37. "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users'."
    (Edward Tufte)

Programmers

38. "Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."
    (Rich Cook)
39. "Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."
    (Larry Wall)
40. "The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
    (Seymour Cray)
41. "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
    (Larry Niven)
42. "For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match."
    (Bill Bryson)
43. "Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."
    (Eric Raymond)
44. "A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place."
    (IEEE Grid newsmagazine)
45. "A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more."
    (Peter Seebach)
46. "The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability."
    (Randall E. Stross)
47. "A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."
    (Bill Gates)

Programming

48. "Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job."
    (Mosher's Law of Software Engineering)
49. "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
    (Bill Gates)
50. "Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."
    (Gerald Weinberg)
51. "First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack."
    (George Carrette)
52. "First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."
    (John Johnson)
53. "Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment."
    (Kent Beck)
54. "To iterate is human, to recurse divine."
    (L. Peter Deutsch)
55. "The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit."
    (Anonymous)
56. "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."
    (Stan Kelly-Bootle)

Programming Languages

57. "There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."
    (Bjarne Stroustrup)
58. "PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."
    (Jon Ribbens)
59. "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense."
    (E.W. Dijkstra)
60. ""It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
    (E. W. Dijkstra)
61. "I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing."
    (Oktal)
62. "There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs."
    (Larry Flon)
63. "Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is."
    (Larry Wall)

C/C++"

64. "Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?"
    (Richard A. O'Keefe)
65. "Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed."
    (Bob Gray)
66. "In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg."
    (Bjarne Stroustrup)
67. "C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."
    (Gavin Russell Baker)
68. "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
    (Robert Firth)

Java

69. "Java is, in many ways, C++–."
    (Michael Feldman)
70. "Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders."
    (Alanna)
71. "Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like."
    (pixadel)
72. "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."
    (Robert Sewell)

Open Source

73. "Software is like sex: It's better when it's free."
    (Linus Torvalds)
74. "The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less."
    (David Emery)

Code

75. "Good code is its own best documentation."
    (Steve McConnell)
76. "Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else."
    (Eagleson's Law)
77. "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."
    (Tom Cargill)

Software Development

78. "Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case."
    (Francis Glassborow)
79. "In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is."
    (Jeff Atwood)
80. "Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."
    (Bill Clinton)
81. "You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families."
    (Jim McCarthy)

Debugging

82. "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
    (Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949)
83. "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it."
    (Brian Kernighan)
84. "If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."
    (Edsger W. Dijkstra)

Quality

85. "I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!"
    (Vidiu Platon)
86. "Programming is like sex: one mistake and you're providing support for a lifetime."
    (Michael Sinz)
    
87. "There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
    (Alan J. Perlis)
88. "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
    (Bertrand Meyer)
89. “If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We're sorry, here's a coupon for two more.' “
    (Mark Minasi)
90. "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
    (Martin Golding)
91. "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
    (Paul Ehrlich)
92. "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history–with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
    (Mitch Radcliffe)

Predictions

93. "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
    (Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
94. "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers."
    (Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948)
95. "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."
    (John Von Neumann, circa 1949)
96. "But what is it good for?"
    (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968)
97. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
    (Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)
    
98. "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
    (Bill Gates, 1981)
99. "Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need."
    (Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992)
100. "We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0."
     (Andy Pierson)
101. "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
     (Frank Lloyd Wright)
     "

“人们总是害怕改变。电被发明出来的时候他们害怕电，是不是？他们害怕煤，害怕蒸汽机车。无知无所不在，并导致恐惧。但随着时间推移，人们终究会接受最新的科技。”

正如比尔盖茨曾经警告过一样，计算机已经真正成为我们的最新科技，几乎遍布我们日常生活的每一方面。所以，我们这个时代的某些最伟大的头脑开始思索起计算机和软件对于人类的重要性来了。以下就是101条有关计算机的伟大名言，并且，既然我们这个网站是一个软件开发网站，我们尤其关注编程方面的。

计算机

1. “计算机没什么用。他们只会告诉你答案。”

   （巴勃罗·毕加索，画家）

2. “计算机就跟比基尼一样，省去了人们许多的胡思乱想。”

   （萨姆·尤因，作家）

3. “他们拥有计算机，他们也还可能拥有其他的大规模杀伤性武器。”

   （珍内特·雷诺，美国前女司法部长）

4. “跟计算机工作酷就酷在这里，它们不会生气，能记住所有东西，还有，它们不会喝光你的啤酒。”

   （保罗·利里，吉他手）

5. “如果汽车能赶上计算机的发展周期的话，一辆今天的劳斯莱斯仅值100美元，每加仑要跑100万英里，每年还得爆炸一次，把里面的人杀个精光。”

   （Robert X.Cringely，技术作家）

   计算机智能

6. “计算机总是越来越智能的。科学家告诉我们说不久它们就能跟我们对话了。（这里的“它们”，我指的是“计算机”。我怀疑科学家永远都不能跟我们对话。）”

   （Dave Barry，幽默作家）

7. “我最近注意到，在共同文化中，那种对计算机变得智能化并最终掌控世界的妄想恐惧症几乎彻底消失了。据我所知，这跟MS-DOS的发布基本是同步的。”

   （Larry DeLuca）

8. “计算机会不会思考这个问题就像问潜水艇会不会游泳一样。”

   （Edsger W.Dijkstra，图灵奖获得者）

9. “活了一百年却只能记住30M字节是荒谬的。你知道，这比一张压缩盘还要少。人类境况正在变得日趋退化。”

   （Marvin Minsky，人工智能研究的奠基人）

   信任

10. “这座城市的中央计算机告诉你的？R2D2，你不该相信一台陌生的计算机！”

    （C3PO，星球大战中的翻译机器人）

11. “永远不要相信一台不能扔掉一扇窗户的计算机”

    （斯蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克，苹果联合创始人）

    译者：暗指微软的wINDOWS操作系统

    硬件

12. “硬件：计算机系统中可被踢的部分。”

    （Jeff Pesis）

    软件

13. “今天大部分的软件都很像上百万块砖堆叠在一起组成的埃及金字塔，缺乏结构完整性，只能靠强力和成千上万的奴隶完成。”

    （阿伦·凯，图灵奖获得者，面向对象创始人）

14. “我终于明白‘向上兼容性’是怎么回事了。这是指我们得保留所有原有错误。”

    （Dennie van Tassel）

    操作系统

15. “有两样重要产品出自伯克利：LSD和BSD。我们不相信这是个巧合。”

    （Jeremy S.Anderson）

    译者：LSD是一种药力至强的迷幻剂，BSD（Berkeley Software Distribution，伯克利软件套件）是Unix的衍生系统。

16. “2038年1月19日，凌晨3点14分07秒”

    （UNIX中的世界末日–1970年1月1号之后的2^32秒）

    译者：word跟world同音，UNIX用4个字节（WORD）表示时间，所以最多只能计时2^32秒

17. “每个操作系统都差不多… 我们都一样的烂。”

    （微软的高级副总裁布莱恩·瓦伦蒂尼这样描述操作系统的安全状况，2003）

18. “微软有出了个新版本，Windows XP，据大家说是‘有史以来最稳定的Windows’， 对我而言， 这就好像是在说芦笋是‘有史以来发音最清脆的蔬菜一样’ “

    （Dave Barry）

    互联网

19. “互联网？那个东西还在吗？”

    （Homer Simpson）

20. “网络就像是个母夜叉。我每转到一处都会看见小个的按钮命令我提交。”

    （Nytwind）

    译者注：Submit：提交，另一层意思是要求屈服

21. “想想看吧，已经有一百万只猴子坐在一百万台打字机旁，可Usenet就是比不上莎士比亚。”

    （Blair Houghton）

    软件产业

22. “计算机软件产业最为惊人的成就，是其持续不断地放弃硬件产业的惊人成果和稳定性。”

    （Henry Petroski）

23. “真正的创新经常来自于那些贴近市场、但无力拥有市场的的小型初创公司。”

    （Timm Martin）

24. “人们常说，伟大的科学学科就像是站在其它巨人肩膀上的巨人。人们也说过，软件产业正如站在其他侏儒脚上的侏儒。”

    （Alan Cooper，交互设计之父）

25. “这无关比特、字节和协议，而关乎利润和损益。”

    （郭士纳，IBM前CEO）

26. “我们是微软。反抗是徒劳的。你会被同化的。”

    （保险杠贴纸）

    软件演示

27. “不管演示在彩排的时候有多好，一旦在观众面前展示时，演示不出错的几率与观众人数成反比，与投入的金钱总额成正比。”

    （Mark Gibbs）

    软件专利

28. “专利大多数都是垃圾。浪费时间去阅读这些专利是愚蠢的。只有专利持有人才会这么干，还得强迫自己才会看。”

    （Linus Torvalds，LINUX创始人）

    复杂性

29. “控制复杂性是计算机编程的本质。”

    （Brian Kernigan）

30. “复杂性杀死一切。它把程序员的生活给搞砸了，它令产品难以规划、创建和测试，带来了安全挑战，并导致最终用户和管理员沮丧不已。”

    （Ray Ozzie）

31. “进行软件设计有两种方式。一种是让它尽量简单，让人看不出明显的不足。另一种是弄得尽量复杂，让人看不出明显的缺陷。”

    （C.A.R.Hoare）

32. “好的软件的作用是让复杂的东西看起来简单。”

    （Grady Booch，UML创始人之一）

    易用性

33. “不管那些计算机书籍如何宣称，只需记住，你并非‘傀儡’。真正的傀儡是那些无法设计出易于使用的硬件和软件的那些人，尽管他们是技术专家，因为这是普通消费者赖以生活的东西。”

    （Walter Mossberg，科技专栏记者）

34. “软件供应商在努力尝试让他们的软件更‘易于操作’… 迄今为止，他们最好的办法就是翻出所有的老手册，然后在封面盖上‘易于操作’这几个字。”

    （比尔·盖茨）

35. “有个老套的故事说有人希望他的计算机能像他的电话机一样好用。他的愿望实现了，因为我已经不知道该如何使用自己的电话了。”

    （Bjarne Stroustrup，C++之父）

    用户

36. “任何一个傻瓜都会用电脑。很多都会。”

    （Ted Nelson）

37. “只有两个行业把客户称为‘用户’。”

    （Edward Tufte，信息设计大师）

    译者注：一个是计算机设计，另一个是毒品交易，computer design and drug dealing

    程序员

38. “程序员在跟宇宙赛跑，他们在努力开发出更大更好的傻瓜程序，而宇宙则努力培养出更大更好的白痴。到目前为止，宇宙领先。”

    （Rich Cook）

39. “你们当中很多人都知道程序员的美德。当然啦，有三种：那就是懒惰、急躁以及傲慢。”

    （Larry Wall，Perl发明者）

40. “程序员的问题是你无法预料他在做什么，直到为时已晚。”

    （Seymour Cray，超级计算机之父）

41. “那就是这些自认为痛恨计算机的人的真实面目。他们实际上真正痛恨的是糟糕的程序员。”

    （拉瑞·尼文，科幻作家）

42. “很长时间以来我一直困惑不已，为什么一些又贵又先进的东西会一点用都没有。直到我突然想起，计算机不就是一台愚蠢之至却拥有难以置信的做聪明事能力的机器嘛，而程序员不就是聪明绝顶却拥有难以置信的干蠢事的能力的人嘛。一句话，他们简直就是天生绝配。”

    （比尔·布莱森，旅游文学作家）

43. “不像学学涂涂画画也能让某人成为专家级画家，计算机科学教育不会让任何人成为一名编程大师。”

    （埃里克·雷蒙，开源运动领袖）

44. “一个程序员是经历以下事情后仍能证明自己是严格的专家的人：他可以历经数不清的捶打，可取材于无关紧要的文档，用上面的争议数据作出模糊假设，并以此计算出测微精度的无数片面理解的答案，并由一个不可靠、脑袋充满质疑、公开宣称要让一个倒霉透顶、没有指望、毫无防备，要求第一时间获得信息的部门狼狈不堪、令人生厌的人使用一台准确度有问题的仪器去实施。”

    （IEEE网格新闻杂志）

45. “运气好的黑客能用几个月的时间 - 生产出一个小规模的开发团体（比如说，7-8人）历尽艰辛一起工作了一年多才能做出来的东西。IBM经常报告说某些程序员的生产力要比其它工人高百倍，甚至更多。”

    （Peter Seebach，黑客）

46. “最好的程序员跟好的程序员相比可不止好那么一点点。这种好不是一个数量级的，取决于标准怎么定：概念创造性、速度、设计的独创性或者解决问题的能力。”

    （兰德尔·E·斯特劳斯，科技作家）

47. “伟大的车工值得给他几倍于普通车工的薪水，但一个伟大的软件代码作家，其价值则要等同于一个普通的软件写手的价格的1万倍。”

    （比尔·盖茨）

    编程

48. “就算它工作不正常也别担心。如果一切正常，你早该失业了。”

    （Mosher的软件工程定律）

49. “靠代码行数来衡量开发进程就好比用重量来衡量飞机制造的进度。”

    （比尔·盖茨）

50. “写代码的社会地位比盗墓的高，比管理的低。”

    （杰拉尔·德温伯格，软件与系统思想家）

51. “首先学习计算机科学及理论。接着形成自己编程的风格。然后把这一切都忘掉，尽管改程序就是了。”

    （George Carrette，杰出软件工程师，开源推广者）

52. “先解决问题再写代码。”

    （John Johnson）

53. “乐观主义是编程行业的职业病；用户反馈则是治疗方法。”

    （Kent Beck）

54. “迭代者为人，递归者为神。”

    （L.Peter Deutsch）

55. “布尔值最好的一点是，就算你错了，也顶多错了一位而已。”

    （无名氏）

56. “数组的下标是从0开始好还是从1开始好呢？我的0.5的折衷方案，以我之见，没有经过适当考虑就被否决掉了。”

    （Stan Kelly-Bootle）

    编程语言

57. “只有两种编程语言：一种是天天挨骂的，另一种是没人用的。”

    （Bjarne Stroustrup，C++之父）

58. “PHP是不合格的业余爱好者创建的，他们犯做了个小恶；Perl是娴熟而堕落的专家创建的，他们犯了阴险狡诈的大恶。”

    （Jon Ribbens）

59. “COBOL的使用摧残大脑；其教育应被视为刑事犯罪。”

    （E.W.Dijkstra）

60. “把良好的编程风格教给那些之前曾经接触过BASIC的学生几乎是不可能的。作为可能的程序员，他们已精神残废，无重塑的可能了。”

    （E.W.Dijkstra）

61. “我想微软之所以把它叫做.Net，是因为这样它就不会在Unix的目录里显示出来了。”

    （Oktal）

62. “There is no programming language – no matter how structured – that will prevent programmers from making bad programs。”

    （Larry Flon）

63. “计算机语言设计犹如在公园里漫步。我是说侏罗纪公园。”

    （Larry Wall）

    C/C++

64. “搞了50年的编程语言的研究，我们难道就以C++告终啦？”

    （Richard A.O'Keefe）

65. “写C或者C++就像是在用一把卸掉所有安全防护装置的链锯。”

    （Bob Gray）

66. “在C++里你想搬起石头砸自己的脚更为困难了，不过一旦你真的做了，整条腿都要报销。”

    （Bjarne Stroustrup）

67. “C++ ： 友人可造访你的私有成员之地也。”

    （Gavin Russell Baker）

    译者：Friends：C++的友元，是一种定义在类外部的普通函数，但它需要在类体内进行说明，为了与该类的成员函数加以区别，在说明时前面加以关键字friend。友元不是成员函数，但是它可以访问类中的私有成员。友元的作用在于提高程序的运行效率，但是，它破坏了类的封装性和隐藏性，使得非成员函数可以访问类的私有成员。

68. “罗马帝国灭亡的其中一个主要原因是他们没有0 - 这样他们就没法给自己的C程序指明成功退出的路径了。”

    （Robert Firth）

    Java

69. “Java从许多方面来说就是C++–。”

    （Michael Feldman）

70. “说Java好就好在运行于多个操作系统之上，就好像说肛交好就好在不管男女都行。”

    （Alanna）

71. “好吧，Java也许是编程语言的好榜样。但Java应用则是应用程序的坏榜样。”

    （pixadel）

72. “要是Java真的有垃圾回收的话，大部分程序在执行的时候就会把自己干掉了。”

    （Robert Sewell）

    开源

73. “软件就像性事：免费/自由更好。”

    （Linus Torvalds）

74. “唯一对免费软件感到害怕的人，是自己的产品还要不值钱的人。”

    （David Emery）

    代码

75. “好代码本身就是最好的文档。”

    （Steve McConnell）

76. “你自己的代码如果超过6个月不看，再看的时候也一样像是别人写的。”

    （伊格尔森定律）

77. “前面90%的代码要占用开发时间的前90%。剩下的10%的代码要占用开发时间的另一90%。”

    （Tom Cargill）

    软件开发

78. “好的程序员会用脑，但是好的向导救我们于样样都要想到。”

    （Francis Glassborow）

79. “在软件里面，我们鲜有有意义的需求。就算有，衡量成功的唯一尺度也取决于我们的解决方案是否解决了客户对问题是什么的观念的转变。”

    （Jeff Atwood）

80. “想想我们计算机程序的糟糕现状吧，很显然软件开发仍是黑箱艺术，还不能称之为工程学科。”

    （Bill Clinton，前美国总统）

81. “没有伟大的团队就没有伟大的软件，可大部分的软件团队举止就像是支离破碎的家庭。”

    （吉姆·麦卡锡，微软VC++总监）

    调试

82. “一旦我们开始编程，就会惊讶地发现让程序正常没想象中那么简单。调试不可避免。那一刻我认记忆犹新，当时我就意识到，从今往后我生活的大部分时间都要花在寻找自己程序的错误上面了。”

    （莫里斯·威尔克斯《调试探索》， 1949）

83. “调试难度本来就是写代码的两倍。因此，如果你写代码的时候聪明用尽，根据定义，你就没有能耐去调试它了。”

    （Brian Kernighan）

84. “如果调试是除虫的过程，那么编程就一定是把臭虫放进来的过程。”

    （Edsger W.Dijkstra）

    质量

85. “我才不管它能不能在你的机器上运行呢！我们又没装到你的机器上！”

    （Vidiu Platon，罗马尼亚的微软最佳学生合作伙伴MSP）

86. “编程就像性一样：一时犯错，终生维护。”

    （Michael Sinz）

87. “有两种写出无错程序的办法；只有第三种有用。”

    （Alan J.Perlis）

88. “软件质量与指针算法不可兼得。”

    （Bertrand Meyer）

89. “如果麦当劳像软件公司那样运作的话，每一百个巨无霸就会有一个令你食物中毒，而他们的回应是，‘真对不起，这是一张额外附送两个的赠券。’”

    （Mark Minasi）

90. “永远要这样写代码，好像最终维护你代码的人是个狂暴的、知道你住在哪里的精神病患者。”

    （Martin Golding）

91. “是人都会犯错，不过要想把事情彻底搞砸还得请电脑出马。”

    （Paul Ehrlich）

92. “计算机比人类历史上的任何发明都更快速地导致你犯更多的错误–可能除了手枪和龙舌兰酒是例外。”

    （Mitch Radcliffe）

    预测

93. “能发明的东西都发明出来了。”

    （查尔斯·杜埃尔， 美国专利局局长，1899年）

94. “我认为全球市场约需5台计算机。”

    （托马斯·沃森， IBM董事长， 约1948年）

95. “看上去我们已经到达了利用计算机技术可能获得的极限了，尽管下这样的结论得小心，因为不出五年这听起来就会相当愚蠢。”

    （约翰·冯·诺伊曼，约1949年）

96. “但这又有什么好处呢？”

    （IBM先进计算机系统部的工程师对微芯片的评论， 1968年）

97. “我们没有理由让每一个人在家都拥有一台电脑。”

    （肯·奥尔森，数据设备公司（DEC）总裁，1977年）

98. “640K对每一个人来说都已足够。”

    （比尔·盖茨，1981年）

99. “Windows NT的RAM寻址空间可达2G，这比任何应用程序所需都要多。”

    （微软， 谈及Windows NT的开发时所言， 1992年）

100. “我们永远也无法真正成为无纸化社会，直到掌上电脑一族发布擦我1.0（WipeMe 1.0）为止。”

     （安迪·皮尔逊，商界领袖）

     译者注：意思是说难道你大便不用纸吗？

101. “长此以往，除了按键的手指外，人类的肢体将全部退化。”

     （弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特，建筑师）