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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.
3 ^' @/ j, a' m- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?$ b3 e1 }; f# p/ y$ ^- J4 @5 ~
- T.S. Elliot- M/ F' [, k& I% n" |

; X6 I9 J0 e; n6 ]& z* @640K ought to be enough for anybody.
6 C- `1 W1 ]* v& o( ?- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981& q. V5 z+ m/ B) V* M
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.$ I, r0 U3 q0 Q
- B. F. Skinner+ y$ d" A! `, C2 I* @5 {

. D3 G4 n8 J0 t( L  ^- R" {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.
1 f3 Q6 h( ?1 y- 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.2 P" Q' V: M" k% B4 {% {
- Anonymous6 n9 i" H: A6 d6 K: ]" l& k$ ~

/ Q! s+ t( a. P% C2 m0 u  IFor 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.
( d' v5 r, t' M: K6 t( ~0 r/ T- Anonymous
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1 }+ R) ~; {0 v( f7 XComputers 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.% e& {- R6 |" o7 ]% b
- Andy Rooney5 ^0 x& E1 ^$ f9 h, N! ~

& z, \( F& i6 ^1 A2 d0 cIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.: ^  s  T' W7 r: R& H9 e9 z+ m
- Richard Power8 q1 o' s( O' _2 C
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
% y) l0 D6 `; n% h8 E* T2 H; y$ J- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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0 i) B3 K+ o) Q! HIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.6 \* @2 T  n1 l) t
- 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.3 b, W! S) j5 B. U+ n4 j
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
1 r$ L( m# H. G  D# l" ?/ A- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
+ y" K3 ?' p# O! I: |. g- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric) b; o. A. P5 x" }! ~6 y% L

2 Q# A8 i+ h4 PAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.5 a8 e) c( b& D6 ~( Y
- Anonymous
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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.( u7 x% B5 q; J
- Jeremy S. Anderson! C/ C0 K9 @- q# a$ Q$ g

2 y6 R0 v- {9 A- {' d. uOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
, D4 R1 N7 f+ M$ o1 ?- Elbert Hubbard8 H$ O  f9 ], e8 m) D

* C, G1 h; C, D' Z! K) t" lAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.. S1 r/ F, `0 S- d7 j
- David Thornburg
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  F+ D1 B* o% UThose 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.0 t1 ^( {6 \* |% g; c" f) {
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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5 r( w6 V0 K' U. i8 J1 c7 X' kBuild early and build often.
" E4 p) m% T( I5 t. @- Proprietary developer adage# m" p# u/ y" q" u# ~# q) [

$ \7 ^* b4 T  |8 O& e) f  hRelease early and release often.4 ?! O; e. V; X
- Open source developer adage" H7 b2 v" f& [% F
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.9 ?; n' J. v% Y- ]
- Carl Sagan2 j6 a) g, [5 }

; Y0 A; K3 z; t3 E& v  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.
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$ ^+ U4 U0 q, d: F& k5 aThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
' k* A4 ?* x9 w  @/ t- Margaret Thatcher6 m- q& I) C  Z3 {; D

$ o3 W1 l. m, a$ LThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.( e: L. @" ]+ |
- Jerry Olson' D( E" M$ ]: z5 g  \
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The 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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# o) V1 \  O& [5 t0 w" W* j5 UEverything that can be invented has been invented.
" r) [4 g: v1 a  W- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899' N+ t7 y+ J- h4 F/ G. g
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT! v0 w$ L' d. V: {
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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& R- G, `/ _  ~& [, YAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
+ l2 L2 Z2 z7 @- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
: e- A+ Y! z+ F: S! g3 U7 m- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.( R, y2 I& x/ E# P
- Alan J. Perlis
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* \! F( d" c: }4 k3 {I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.- Y! b, a+ {0 \9 F
- Thomas Edison
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.2 [2 |3 {! J! c# [
- 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
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9 O; M& C" M1 ^$ p% e0 JThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.  s1 K8 |/ _1 v5 @
- Senator Bob Dole
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5 c$ t7 }$ n+ E% _$ K# B5 ^Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
: c5 ?% C5 f; ]- v! ]" N; T# Y- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.% o& ~8 a9 U8 D) ^) ^( P
- 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.
% k8 M7 j$ o- s- U* c" u6 z) \- Andrew Heller, IBM# G" K" p% q2 e3 |: w% b+ x# z8 L0 F9 a
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.4 p- ^9 h9 {5 }, F( i+ `
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos9 M3 R( f0 ?4 t5 r% m
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?5 j7 A4 s$ p7 `
- Al Gore on Y2K7 Y6 V! f, ?2 B/ [+ B$ Y

$ q2 ?; J; ]) r& Z  ~, g. ?5 {The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.. y! g* m$ c; W6 l
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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+ M* e" e: b% f0 ?2 YThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
4 }/ _6 L' ^( o3 h, Y# A- Linus Torvalds
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* S+ W3 e2 v! p# U) B) V: m' ?3 |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.
$ n) O& Q; R; Q- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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  @4 n4 G5 w8 i2 ^. ?4 ]There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.' h( Z( t) ~/ j6 G& y
- 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.9 ^9 M% A- I3 ~" t8 D2 k
- Thomas Edison# d3 ^) u" X0 n/ c# p- Z' K- t' n

( n6 q) W3 F' c9 j% j) eEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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