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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.2 E1 c) T. ]' m6 b  R" x, ]
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum3 f, S: t8 S9 D4 H+ X" H+ Q: W9 g
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
* F! L3 T7 x, ?, ~, A- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
  W- y+ R0 Z0 _7 j- B. F. Skinner: a! a) H, z8 y5 {4 w) r' Q

; F6 v0 {! C/ z) gThere 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.
6 q9 u8 h: j$ O6 b7 T; x' G7 t- 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.7 i" N5 R' ]# H2 P4 u" X  ]
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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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* n: C; w4 f! B8 w' H1 ZComputers 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.# M, s/ j) ^  i7 u5 {  o
- Andy Rooney
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& Q  a' V# I% A* F/ g  eIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
. t2 r. k" Y  e8 I- Richard Power8 k2 J8 P3 ?( N" x0 l1 v
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.9 ~8 y* o3 t9 ?" R4 [
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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' a/ v( x/ r8 @+ o# f% KIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.. ?' A3 Q- p) I! s& G
- Scott Adams  d& |; R# p9 J$ ^7 G7 c4 Z2 i8 P3 |8 i- W

7 `/ k0 ]- E" I1 K4 M7 g; GIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
% c( w& U% J, j( o- Anonymous
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0 G5 `# m0 \! f) V' M8 JIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
3 \$ d9 v" y" S4 O- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.; z4 ^; V% ]% r# E
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric/ p& X8 a! b, U1 Q' Z: G: _
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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# h9 Q$ R1 H8 `4 s5 L: CThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
9 _) |4 f2 R3 ?  s' S- Jeremy S. Anderson2 e+ y& Q7 P( v

2 R' {' D! M% D1 |: u6 GOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.* y! ^4 v& z: q
- Elbert Hubbard
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6 G; a) M# s9 b; W. c# pAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.: d; p1 G" W5 Q0 O. h
- 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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6 o3 i/ A2 E+ ]' M- R4 f! _Save early, save often.3 V) I' p' w+ U: t0 N
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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8 ]2 C8 f6 r1 R/ eBuild early and build often.
; O, W) V; Z9 X5 M3 f2 [: C- Proprietary developer adage
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& o! B8 G) J0 |2 a9 I4 n" XRelease early and release often.
4 \3 ]0 f8 S% }8 X% q& I- Open source developer adage
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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.
  A9 C+ i/ v+ j2 a; ?/ P3 R- Carl Sagan* M7 @9 H' |$ F4 u8 S( c  e
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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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.: _, j3 E& w4 V0 K; p& a0 `
- Margaret Thatcher" O$ C4 N0 H0 _3 X' J/ V8 i. u

; _9 e9 z7 L  r" uThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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( ^2 \% a  q$ e6 QThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.- q( P* V( Z; I6 Z
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9 C6 C4 k: H% xEverything that can be invented has been invented.0 I$ B1 O% @" _9 Z- d) c
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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: Z. l" R' q2 fGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
8 `# l. Q( Q. m7 l, \5 x7 Y- [+ y- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969/ h' X# N' B: D( P5 p
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.4 O# |# ~- g% w& ?
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
" z' Y% j. I9 ^$ V- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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4 |8 h4 v5 ]+ \( w' ?A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.; |' b" ^1 t* {' }- V+ w3 w$ E# z' b
- Alan J. Perlis. B3 v8 C% y; M  _
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  h. T+ v" ]3 ]- 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.- u- k4 {; O* @6 Y: V4 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
+ b4 @* k% W9 z! E  M- Senator Bob Dole
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! E: \/ o# j4 P7 b7 EComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.7 Z0 L7 i  U1 N
- 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.9 U4 U  Y, O4 D$ H* v
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.. }! M" U$ h& @( z
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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4 d. A# u: F3 V2 ]! _0 L3 e- U+ hHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
; s" x  J; g' q7 l, y; _- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- ]" k: V- r* B) W7 ~- }8 b3 I; I3 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.
# d& g, i& w- L# y- Linus Torvalds
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4 N- i1 r7 @- OTo 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 U2 G; k% i2 _: \Windows is just DOS in drag.2 W, b- Z6 E3 r" O
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.* W2 I5 i1 P! }4 B7 A0 E. S( D4 `0 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.
+ o% p# L- s- I- Thomas Edison
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4 W6 B5 v) C  x& c; Q0 H8 HEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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