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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.  O! k- R4 a! M  M+ D  k
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?# X( p  f' ?3 E' k
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; d  C1 A- ?* i  Q0 \640K ought to be enough for anybody.% O  |) _. w, K- \. [, o
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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# D, x4 _: e0 V9 rThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
, b" ^( k+ l8 _( X, e4 L* u- B. F. Skinner# [% D4 Q% T5 Q: m, \6 U  i+ w
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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.
; u. G4 G0 `2 c: [# P' a- 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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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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& x8 H0 ?! ]- e. M  R! S# LComputers 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.
. G2 y! x3 I' c0 P& U4 U3 `- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.* j+ f- @8 G* Y* I& C1 M, R
- Richard Power
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1 Z. r, `) j' V  i" |I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
2 e/ `( ]' |# U. I) I- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19431 v* J8 h6 r1 x7 {2 s9 `. C: t

" q1 t0 n7 s: ?* y4 AIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
( i, o) e4 T: [$ H- Scott Adams
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. j! P, {* S' f; p6 nIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.! G& |' I1 ]/ C' N0 j
- Anonymous. s2 c& ^! a; Q7 s% ^* W& B3 J4 C
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
* n* H  k& Q# w/ B! F- Bradley's Bromide+ A: H4 t1 D' \' S' \

8 x: ^# d$ W9 fThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
  c: I2 K# t0 M! \- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric$ {1 B3 ]$ ?+ J: j) P

5 G4 n8 D* {/ _$ `* T2 jAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.6 k& `6 ~/ X. @, z, l% t% |. [
- 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.
* n. r+ F) a7 _. r! \- Jeremy S. Anderson' v2 ^% u- C' ~, C
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
( D$ I7 ~; ]( e" o' T9 I2 W- Elbert Hubbard9 w* ?) q0 c! O3 w

7 `" F- z" }# _3 ^: {/ y8 lAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be., ~+ X  c; U7 T5 ~5 ]& a
- 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.
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Save early, save often.
& G. c1 W+ r0 @1 G- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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5 G0 A* B, X$ x+ _, S0 S- xBuild early and build often.2 ]' x2 f% p. e; Q8 H: j; b' }
- Proprietary developer adage" o) A/ x' k2 v
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Release early and release often.# [* W0 o4 y. @+ ~) E
- Open source developer adage/ M, A' ^" M8 [# g& ~3 B- g* B
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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.
1 C7 v% z! ~! j& Q. Y- 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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5 u' h' P: p3 \6 o7 d, r! OThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
" A' X. W8 I" V) D) t- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.( |: @" z8 g1 K
- Jerry Olson
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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.3 k- ~  g) D: x( r
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5 E4 A: F3 O- f9 e2 e* T, d! IEverything that can be invented has been invented.
$ i$ p, w* }# O2 ^3 z9 k- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
) s* C  d3 L* f$ A9 L9 U1 I$ f- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969" y9 g1 U" F; b6 d# B
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
! P% ]0 P% r8 i* [, O- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
" K8 M) C' `  R- Gregory Benford
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: H2 x- C6 p& WNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.$ p. I% M/ k' U  d/ [# f# Z
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.$ e4 c2 b5 j2 [  B
- Alan J. Perlis  m  ]4 l( C" m2 p& S
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
6 j7 ^+ |" N$ L* w* _  n: [- Thomas Edison  F/ r6 {% g- ?- q

8 N7 ?) D9 V9 w+ a" r2 U3 sGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
, R# o& g. E" j- D6 p, k- 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- n# u* c, z6 A1 H( E* m4 s& j

" W2 J8 C: A8 ~) F$ k3 _The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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+ @$ N9 B$ N, ]8 V0 cComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.2 t; O2 Q7 M7 ~6 f) ?
- Popular Mechanics, 1949+ k- J" \8 U" W- T
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.$ ~' H3 z! {( Y) t# A) Y
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy1 b( s" A; o7 v( Q4 b4 q
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.% A0 n7 H0 A( b# A  q9 d2 F
- Andrew Heller, IBM# k8 `. Q! r% l$ Y; L) t

1 d7 o, c+ q# ?# _" q6 d: gAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.2 u( ?6 n, T$ j
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos- H" z0 [  \4 }5 P4 [
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
) u" I8 A" b& G- Al Gore on Y2K
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) l# S2 z* P5 Y+ MThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
9 i" N  u2 i1 l: S1 @4 X9 _0 e- 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.: k; U# z) W7 b4 V7 W" F* B
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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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8 A1 W5 \. B/ s8 V  R1 fWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
' F2 z+ W7 s: t- 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.
, P6 \6 u! [8 \$ s5 z& d- Thomas Edison
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  {7 k4 e* r0 m! qEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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