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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.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?9 V0 d9 g2 ?/ X' H! o8 S
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.( V1 d5 o( O/ W
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.- F7 X+ v1 W1 y# ]  H
- B. F. Skinner
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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.2 r  P+ Y. A$ @2 _
- George Pompidou
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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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( e& ?' B! W, E3 s, C! v: y8 B% cFor 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.
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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.
' v* D: ~5 m4 K; ^% N9 K4 b# H, V) Q- Andy Rooney
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, W: O+ D" Y% d: ?: UIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.. i; M. d7 e7 A- h. L) v5 C
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.- Y3 k# {" {! }0 f
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943* z: a/ I0 a* Y8 S( ]# _8 ~

" W  ^4 u3 D3 R, w) p1 RIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.  P; t1 M& v3 z' F
- Scott Adams. Q6 C: {% C: W% Z9 ^) M

% H9 E! R# W( \" nIn 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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1 u& H5 t, k" g  m$ E; ~The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
) V' V  ^4 V1 C- 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.
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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.
2 S# z  h4 ~/ Z$ i) |- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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! o  ~* K  D. J1 PAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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.% R. D5 @! `0 |+ E; c) ~" t% V
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.6 }- h$ h, _! F( Q' Y& T4 B1 z  G/ V
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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9 _2 o# l) v% ~# j* |Build early and build often.
! ^+ z: b; }% ?- Proprietary developer adage
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: u3 r4 i' @. g3 J1 P- qRelease early and release often., ~0 p! x  ~) t( I: F& W: k/ @3 p
- Open source developer adage
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! v$ R* i: z8 g1 @. [We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.8 [, I* i3 c. N2 @
- Carl Sagan
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. P+ f" p9 u. e- F7 GIf 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.- m5 Q) j# H' U
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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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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6 |& u! ?! j3 x/ A" V* D7 JThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
5 R9 i4 I( g; l6 w4 p- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899# l2 Y+ E; P1 P- @% h5 H8 l

! I: ^; w, G4 V1 AGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
4 b% t  O: a( l! v  H: r) x; @- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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3 V* a3 H6 l# P" n& vAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.9 P/ _; o, F9 [/ }+ v6 e: M, n- x
- Arthur C. Clarke2 `9 }3 H3 H$ C
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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9 q: O! Z/ w: dNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.( k1 v# x+ `, ]6 K& `7 Q# M
- Anonymous
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3 E* w$ V3 Q" _* e* V" @A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.+ w9 Y/ G, i( u  R- f4 [8 h2 G
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) M, D& {/ r! r6 [9 K1 \" P- EGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
9 ~5 M5 D4 ~7 V- 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+ `- z- x9 ]: i5 L& A7 O2 W' a$ ]
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.2 Z# L6 A0 f$ h# ~
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.2 z3 |" ]: M3 E+ n, w8 R
- Popular Mechanics, 1949+ G& M- J. ^5 L+ e$ C

4 D. p4 i8 v( l' u% A From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.0 i+ x$ s; `  a
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.0 q  Q0 `1 j" x$ i1 [  w
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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4 h5 }' g" K9 k& wHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent./ C' f% u, Q, v4 {6 i0 _$ M! N
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.: |" @/ K: r5 }% N" D
- Linus Torvalds
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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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.* T8 {) {+ W$ h. M$ z6 w; v- _8 n" C
- 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.
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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