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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./ ]+ W+ H3 k7 q6 d+ m
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum3 ~1 R% O$ B! y1 E0 Z% |0 \9 Z% {3 N
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T% H( _5 ^) X% [2 H7 }, y3 i$ p& B- T.S. Elliot& D: l/ Z) f" n9 ]- i7 P4 ~$ g

: r9 u* L6 r( R640K ought to be enough for anybody.8 r+ }% ^0 C- s8 u1 N
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981# x) x8 [) g0 [
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.& u4 ~+ }: ^" ~
- B. F. Skinner5 K; e9 T- p, ^" q' P! i' m, S

- I( T. {( C) N( Y4 P! jThere 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 S' s4 L0 b( ]
- 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., m5 i5 `! ^. p/ k
- Anonymous) N" S; M9 Q9 t0 ?, W! L
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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.0 g+ j% f. [2 Z* C) s5 p
- Anonymous0 q  [( \# y9 C/ W/ ~7 f) T1 w

  G) s  c  ~5 ^5 e' 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.! _) ^& [+ ]* p2 W2 S6 C
- Andy Rooney' b, H$ ^" S% Z! `; f( W  c
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.! s# A9 W9 ]. X. T3 q+ T" w
- Richard Power% G  b3 Y6 h, t8 S

. P% p& z5 l( J  ]3 {- NI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.0 p" d8 u7 {9 Q6 f
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
9 P2 ^# a8 J" h" l$ Z3 k8 }: `1 q- Scott Adams! x. S, g! c5 U$ D, I

$ e. m1 N! e5 q" L9 n' v3 t/ sIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
' G5 ]" m* _- X; i$ ]) E8 j- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
# j0 J! L$ e- Z4 H% F5 V* h2 `- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
& s& {, x' Y, N0 g* v# H1 E  S- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric& H8 |8 K  \# I6 o- c5 @+ r' V

# X0 v3 R* D/ J  L8 I/ U9 NAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.( R' V4 b7 s, h" b- F9 U, u/ j
- Anonymous, L' _: c4 K( V4 Z, X! e8 c- R

; b" s4 ]$ S" z. A  f' PThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
( C1 }; j, J2 @) x- Jeremy S. Anderson' R: _, c! q* A9 `( {- w

) Q/ h5 n& O  Y3 B) jOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
. v3 m3 p3 d5 R, e" \; X  ?1 }- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
# u3 Q& G0 D  V) c. L  ]) [, m, r- David Thornburg! M+ |! @" b. R2 t" s2 _
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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.% ^; L0 R  C0 [) b( X, u
- Anonymous
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0 ]+ w. _2 }3 ?* a: WSave early, save often.( ]* B! }% W9 `" x
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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- c- S  E$ \7 {# e% rBuild early and build often.
1 X3 J2 ^4 O( E4 W( I) R6 {) ]! v# S# ?- Proprietary developer adage/ K4 {4 {& v0 Z( f6 N
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Release early and release often.
( P* f. y8 t( M0 z- Open source developer adage
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0 U) O; y! o$ L. v% a: T  M, BWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.) c( `8 {8 L% J% w' k
- Carl Sagan2 T0 i4 a( D4 [6 k0 h

/ V8 z3 P- W2 q/ h$ S& U: m, xIf 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.
; C9 L! b* k  ?. ~- \' E6 a0 k- Anonymous1 T) [# F# v  D' W" Q
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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., M# c+ n, l3 ]6 O) @
- Margaret Thatcher
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( s; p$ W9 Z5 V0 {/ k* s; tThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.( n+ }# j9 J& {
- Jerry Olson% f1 c. F  W2 s* C% f1 n3 n; r
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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.8 g+ ~/ I7 W8 B; s! h% w0 N* t' j: @
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
5 D0 n3 Z' G0 h# W+ e6 E- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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* u6 s6 ^2 z$ E: MGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
5 s8 @% q/ r! x- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969. ^( Q/ q% B2 t2 F: z4 r
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
; @# N+ r$ J$ i: X- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
  a1 t2 i* A$ X9 Z5 B7 D# R6 g- Gregory Benford1 a3 p) t. E" B/ N. l: W6 f- V

; R8 b+ U( P+ h- R* T' C) pNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.( c4 t- p6 n* _1 l6 a: W1 H* u
- Anonymous
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7 n: [2 z1 b, \! xA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
8 f% P. V" M; t7 x- Alan J. Perlis2 x- C8 u" J6 A- p

) n+ b: S6 \* ZI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work./ I$ x$ [& B" S+ x
- 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., y* N. P% B( D1 P; I+ w
- 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 developed4 D9 J8 j; _4 S# c3 F; \

. M7 D3 \1 _0 i9 z: Y. jThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.: ?4 N0 s/ p9 f
- Senator Bob Dole
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# r- ~* G: a3 E; k9 wComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
" [3 p9 v8 |! g, X/ u' s- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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1 U, b: ~( y& s1 ~. _ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
& t% R& W- ]" S' S, {. T* b: @- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy1 a* K3 o- N% {

" S4 b  T2 m, E+ B, ]& }Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.% l, x! y# ]7 U$ u1 K6 l- C
- Andrew Heller, IBM3 f: `% ~2 @8 g0 u) H$ s
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
* m2 q9 y1 u. U; J# y) C9 ]) I- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?' X" h0 c3 A# o2 ~+ M5 P4 U, m1 w% g
- Al Gore on Y2K0 Y# r, @; }, c0 f. @
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent./ {1 I+ O8 @. ?* T1 U4 T7 T  T7 z
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.7 c% W2 E  I. ~0 P. j/ O1 x# S) J5 C
- Linus Torvalds
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5 n/ \5 {' @# {( eTo 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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. T# C# J9 C' B- }! [3 P3 aWindows is just DOS in drag.
+ B- K/ i: O( ?, Z7 Q3 Z. }0 J9 }- Anonymous
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5 x7 F: A* ^2 _There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.9 q) ]) ~6 o$ k5 m% ^7 Y- V
- 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.
5 i; l; F* _$ A: }1 D0 |# n2 D- Thomas Edison+ e, a; t- R, Y/ }+ W
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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