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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.
. c: z6 c+ j( w% {) A. X- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?9 ^( n( ]0 c3 H
- T.S. Elliot2 ^; i" j+ v' I! u' z

; Q( G5 N9 }) r. D5 B" [640K ought to be enough for anybody.
6 q% u$ ]; f  N& S- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981; \0 X' u7 i2 D. z$ \4 ^

: I" @% T* E6 d1 C. vThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.* E, N4 n1 X; W
- B. F. Skinner
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& W9 v: u1 `5 x( e. ]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.
6 s6 K# n, w% j5 V, c! ?4 b  i- George Pompidou2 \0 ]4 v* h5 s. R+ j

( w9 ^9 t5 N, p) oTechnology 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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For 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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, D2 g. k' ~8 l1 tComputers 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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
! R& f! N% ~- ]8 Z& G2 u+ F- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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+ r$ ^8 w; Y* T! D" s1 N$ g1 }If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.1 f$ R- U6 `$ ~! M& n0 \  u
- Scott Adams
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.2 q2 [' A- W' c2 ^& O5 e4 K
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.4 F) v, m5 K& h2 s9 A7 c( F
- Bradley's Bromide
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+ S& W, U1 z. g3 E4 BThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
5 m5 ?+ X, j5 _* P9 R5 c- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric4 ~% a! l0 |8 R/ i
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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.8 V9 F4 i: {6 P) C/ V
- Jeremy S. Anderson5 s) s6 u6 ^% |

" ^6 F* _7 V% H1 ~6 z! iOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.- J4 Y- c2 X7 D/ t4 E
- Elbert Hubbard
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1 X8 f  z, i7 u6 F3 c* FAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.2 D$ _3 K4 k! {( S0 d) d9 l
- David Thornburg2 ]4 v+ q9 e. \2 I
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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.
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Save early, save often.
8 `* \/ ]0 g, z" c& v6 d, b- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word" s0 X( e* c- P0 p

- r* H4 Q# d: S# {Build early and build often.) Y( H- G- l* w% e) E7 k
- Proprietary developer adage
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4 Y% s. j+ v- hRelease early and release often.- z2 ~; x7 S$ c2 D
- Open source developer adage
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2 ~4 H' I% \+ A2 ?& w  M: B/ CWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
& h+ I* n- r- i- J- Carl Sagan
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If 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.
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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.
( k2 N. D8 u& V) s% c. I6 D0 q- Jerry Olson
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0 }  e4 c! O7 Z3 x  SThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.% p9 U. C% `8 ?4 W: a" }% l8 L
- Porterfield
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9 _  h, G- f; o- ~1 GEverything that can be invented has been invented.% V9 f* M3 t# K7 S+ U  a
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18995 l6 c* K, F( V5 P9 U. _. l! R# j
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT6 j) x4 g3 Y- S; j3 S' j
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
5 ^  [9 X! S( ~- Arthur C. Clarke
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/ H; I5 p& k8 z! w  ?- TAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
/ U$ V0 K- S# T0 `$ f4 w- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
# ^: z$ s' W' G0 r4 h- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
( C4 E: x2 a# M. p- Alan J. Perlis' _( U# G1 B+ z4 f! q. Q. S7 t8 Q1 }6 y

# [" Z2 i% d9 V" A" m9 s6 \# SI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.; Y5 y7 Z, ?* o$ s
- Thomas Edison* v- ~+ N- N8 h/ y( Y- G$ N

2 Q' S! H$ x; c1 JGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.7 H8 w- Q& `& h0 T% U$ s
- 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 developed1 [4 I- [4 z! J/ L, _& C: a: i

$ B' w0 f. o& _' @4 DThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
; [8 z6 R- o+ o9 r' m  X+ ^2 i- Senator Bob Dole
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2 c) c+ ^; I; i7 gComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
1 u' |( o, z3 _! F# l' e2 c( s- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
& p* [. }) `; V- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.4 B( r2 o0 t( d! ?- [) F# M
- Andrew Heller, IBM( S& `0 N/ F+ s0 S& J+ e
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
" s' g0 p( J/ z; {$ B2 |0 U- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos' |& S- Z+ u6 D" G

- l; p% v4 `0 Q2 b  y: O9 VHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
' x) \; O2 ~5 \1 t/ h5 B: k% U! [- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.5 z$ v% C. Q4 p3 V4 L/ R
- Sydney Brenner in 1927) e8 D6 _, _% J' \( O
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.3 b& h9 j% d% a. t5 q9 Y
- Linus Torvalds
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5 \- P$ D( j! c6 u, M  D& STo 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.6 g9 k9 |, d5 r, C
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Windows is just DOS in drag.! J( Y( E" L, z  S4 `- u
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# \3 f% E  j8 q9 s. d; }There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
, Q4 V9 k" x8 s/ o8 x: S- 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.
  n$ {$ `" [& }3 s4 t2 e4 H- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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