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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.
! d, Z; H: T" m9 ]) U& N  K- Andrew S. Tannenbaum; l% }$ x* K8 v. n' q

; }2 t* {3 e# b! j4 K% {Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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8 l/ |/ J9 P; B! X; U" D2 CThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." ?0 {  F; O! Y9 T) x
- B. F. Skinner
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2 p4 s, \, x* ]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.
0 ^" F; Z+ N- `  a1 n- m# y- George Pompidou
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" x  `3 r# [3 K/ pTechnology 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.# C, l3 t* {, k$ O% N- P5 I
- 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.4 D% h4 O: W: T, W5 C  b
- Andy Rooney5 p: r/ V! ~' H1 d8 L2 s

$ H1 n. K; \: o  aIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.0 S5 K, S" V  [! d& x
- Richard Power7 L( j& |7 r# |& x. l0 H
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.# Y. R  j2 G* U  ^2 G5 Z
- 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.; ]. w9 x( a7 n: ~, n2 D5 q$ x
- Scott Adams
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. g: b! c3 p. YIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.+ M- r" F/ L. k3 y( N+ V
- Anonymous
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% R$ D  \) \$ f+ `  k) @6 jIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.# z4 a- C8 N& k* o
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
. v: t; i/ w- O3 Z" R' O# `- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric1 [0 r' t7 C/ j8 ~2 B; z
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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.
0 ~2 o# {# u8 l7 r- S% _  y- Jeremy S. Anderson2 ?3 n( i* c8 I- B6 Y1 R( |
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.% _0 ~& B) ~/ \' V: g
- Elbert Hubbard8 U7 F$ L6 q- X% _+ Q! r) m
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.5 _7 `* |( O$ y8 d8 M  l5 k
- 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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4 g2 ]4 h' @  Y  e: a. xSave early, save often.2 @2 G8 F5 |: R  c+ V
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.7 m$ ], q; }$ L6 `, {" p0 `
- Proprietary developer adage1 }* e% l# ~  b* a9 s
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Release early and release often.
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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.* V1 S1 J4 W- T4 h4 v0 n% a
- Carl Sagan
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. N% X$ }, w7 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.! m/ Z2 t/ k" d- K
- Anonymous
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& x& x( j2 P) c7 ^7 s" J2 k( HThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
+ H+ M* y- j! t- Margaret Thatcher, K5 M. a1 F- b6 ^- r! S

9 `2 s5 Q  d' kThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.  t3 V, ]" c0 _- ?3 v- }
- Jerry Olson
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4 ^4 Y% E& L, t' l0 hThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.  k6 c- V6 [& X6 {- O: S& R
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5 w) T1 c2 N% a6 a  C3 s; vEverything that can be invented has been invented.
) `; ~# d4 i2 s8 J- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18997 A( n$ Z0 I5 k$ Y
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
' `. s. ]- q& d9 x- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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( D6 m" d; H$ aAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.0 j# m; `& G: s: k4 ?4 o9 X9 }
- Gregory Benford9 Q: q3 W. u8 b# Y

7 M3 B4 f! E6 @! K8 T0 N. QNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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% x6 C. M2 N3 V: z. Z  RA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
, M8 t% X/ @- g1 B) ^- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.1 j! n6 J/ j6 _% I
- Thomas Edison! _. [3 `1 F6 m' q% h
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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.! j, d: v% p/ ^( 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 developed7 {2 b3 y" O4 u! I( \: @

( u; ~" Y  j, }- b. NThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.) d& [) C$ e" i) ~
- Popular Mechanics, 19494 E5 n. a& U- V  R! }+ K, v

5 K- G5 U+ S. n8 \8 @ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it." r9 V) b. ~1 V: I; j
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy2 x4 ]$ V8 [7 ~# @
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.' }4 z' F7 o! S* e: n9 P( }
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
$ _0 m5 j: i$ z' E+ N' X5 K4 @  J6 x- 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?
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- Sydney Brenner in 1927' H& ]: o& x$ s- W, l
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.8 W9 b* Z! X+ t6 g# U1 }4 l
- Linus Torvalds' _8 U1 T9 J3 Q6 `
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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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9 W( u5 q* I6 I9 b; @Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
6 |; L6 x9 D$ ?/ V# F0 M5 r- 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.) J% L. `( Q) u' M: i" }
- Thomas Edison4 A  s% G" ?7 ?+ K: R2 q; L
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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