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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.$ \+ K) P0 d# I, J9 ?* [+ ]
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum, E2 C: J0 ^) _" P. k0 ?1 [

# z3 ?% O$ c3 M- oWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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* u% A8 @% B. O% h5 E+ C9 C( ~640K ought to be enough for anybody.
4 c. t) A* Q1 u; Z- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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. Y5 {% j1 y0 f4 T; V5 B" f, IThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
) t/ U' w$ U( V9 k! w- 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.
4 O" B; o: J- [- 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./ H. @" I+ D% ^/ X$ Y" _  C" `- C
- Anonymous( n8 E6 o) Y- n& w( s8 y- f/ X, J

) M6 J! m6 `2 h: M' a5 K1 D7 AFor 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.( e/ Z3 e( t# X4 L: c4 F, T
- Anonymous
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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.
8 D* v  T+ d7 _: N. B7 P- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
+ M; Q2 l; _* E- U, B9 J- Richard Power  y5 S2 ]1 p2 n4 z& s; z
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
! L5 _* H' O* U  F1 m& c- 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.
) A: j$ u8 d% C5 W- Scott Adams
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4 A  r0 L& z5 w! a' m8 m6 e) X0 u% a3 ]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 U5 u: q) S1 z' w" p" `0 u
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
8 j' X+ F  ?! l" _, X6 }- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.* m. K: I$ n8 G+ Q4 |/ g  R
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric0 {. r4 k8 `8 W& x+ O
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.+ x3 C, ^5 d* }$ B4 e' x
- Anonymous+ Y: }% R' ~% f, y% Y

1 G! m' f. o  @There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
4 h2 m& b" B9 `7 E" c' ], `- Jeremy S. Anderson9 k* P1 n4 L3 Y0 Y: J  D
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
# u4 r" {4 ~& Z- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.6 w/ W! Q6 ?4 c: C1 W
- David Thornburg
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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.( I4 ?+ p3 o* s2 b/ z- Q, T
- Anonymous
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! E+ K3 H8 A5 w" @Save early, save often.
. I  C7 Y6 V" c! V- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word4 R; U  Z8 x' v/ R6 A

4 J. X) s1 S# ~0 jBuild early and build often.
9 S2 O: G& {; W- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.8 r9 E$ ?+ v4 c
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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.
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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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% b0 B) N3 E5 R# x2 ]There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.: L6 C8 d. ]2 s' R  L
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.+ |8 d9 e) w9 o9 J
- Jerry Olson9 ~( Q' @' M3 Y$ [* A( T
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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.- V8 V: e. o$ h  @( ^  ]+ A
- Porterfield
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, n  L- ~9 l, YEverything that can be invented has been invented.4 e( T! |8 c; J( s6 }
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT) E' _$ Q: d. j5 f5 B% ?" F
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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) P8 Y) R9 X' u  v8 m3 {; ]Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
# `: q" ?+ s9 v6 A+ S. d- Arthur C. Clarke5 i* j9 b6 b: ^
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
3 f: i3 |' R* X' o# i  K' g- Gregory Benford" f7 O; h; p7 P, J3 C
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
# K( l1 w9 W; W; M3 z+ v6 w- Anonymous
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$ T6 V( x; @% t  {* `A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.: @! H7 E- v: _- `
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
5 o# _/ B4 s2 b7 e" Z! p4 F1 ^- Thomas Edison$ l/ L9 N& M  L; q' |) x

( P3 w5 z/ U. U" L) [5 ZGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
3 D2 p; d4 t/ w% B- 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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- j" ?3 C( O# b+ v* AThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: r6 q# H- g' L% ^( U- o- 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.
  X% L$ t( I3 C6 o- b- Popular Mechanics, 19499 m. z- z; U( e$ s, T- I- s5 {
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.  B) n0 E& C# `+ W  N' f2 o% ~
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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* Z9 @" Q, N2 O  OTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
+ d; f) B) c9 |- H7 L+ j- Andrew Heller, IBM
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+ o. j5 u4 \$ ]2 Y/ vAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
3 U5 V5 H3 q/ {4 o9 F5 n% c- f- 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?
2 U; J% e6 f. u* k- Al Gore on Y2K; z! G) c8 M/ E; F" y

/ {) j, H* U' g# B, _The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
% N& B8 I& o/ l1 {) p- 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.
3 Z  Q5 K& G6 B6 E$ h' S5 @- Linus Torvalds
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4 B* t) o! Z% LTo 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.# J  y. m4 u- d) k
- Linus Torvalds
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- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
9 I7 G9 a9 w" U- S; c# 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.
( F/ G( r% q/ L0 o! v" N- Thomas Edison+ _$ Y. J! z/ F9 h* c# U

" b3 j' |9 y, l* o% R' y: UEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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