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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." n6 d/ @% n$ m- ~3 @
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum4 l% j$ F2 ]& f; K

( ~/ k( }8 Y2 D/ p4 n8 A! @, s) IWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?% ?& h& v! k1 Q: C6 F1 G
- T.S. Elliot
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. x1 X* k) k! C( _640K ought to be enough for anybody.9 }( F1 `" H, h/ T1 ?6 L
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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# @- _( y+ C6 }! kThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.0 `/ P0 s7 I+ o, w$ a( d
- 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.( `( W8 S+ K- I# X* U$ p
- George Pompidou7 b2 `6 B. }5 c! e: l: s( Y

9 a; H: i# S1 }0 bTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.& Y4 {0 m. h- E. T7 `( p0 {" ^
- Anonymous6 P* n3 X3 W' @! N- ]
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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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9 r3 S2 v; o# t) D9 N2 O$ NComputers 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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- v/ N; N- j% P0 W- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
1 m- S# p' j! M2 h- D& w7 j- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943: ?$ Y% n: G) k$ r( B0 B) I; l
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
) l7 x; D4 R( z- E" `, u8 R- Scott Adams
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4 \  _9 P/ C) M; vIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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$ r* K2 n9 Y4 X! D  kIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
6 Y3 t+ I8 L3 J" |0 Q; }- Bradley's Bromide
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  x" D5 m- B; n, MThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.) H% o  P3 G! O% l, E
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric9 I( w$ Q4 }9 i  M/ G( b) b

$ F8 B( G& \4 |+ I* U9 [At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.: k$ Q4 o3 F4 [
- 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.
  N1 k4 N* \( O, {/ I) ^- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.# [- B" W+ w9 h  j. x  z
- Elbert Hubbard' f# T! I9 }' n
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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." s8 f4 q7 ~, ~& B3 e
- Anonymous
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! k4 F3 R/ x- s- j. rSave early, save often.! B- V% X( `8 H! {
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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9 N3 A. K( {. `; [- M. ~4 ^: pBuild early and build often.
) W& R" ?* f! `2 C- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
3 d9 N" J3 U" t1 N* @8 g- Open source developer adage& v; \1 z2 o* I4 Q" O
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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.* k. C6 I* _& a. V2 L: @# P% t
- Carl Sagan" G+ S) _; v' Y  c
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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." d0 \8 h$ L9 J( O
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.. r+ H+ z; `: ~: S7 c  v9 H& `
- Jerry Olson3 p  x9 v5 W6 r) B
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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.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
4 l, |' w. x; H0 c8 {5 e- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
: {% G. o- H- R0 m) B- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969$ x+ N$ [% }" p# O
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic./ q7 {! ~' w% p* ~' f
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
5 c4 y; O* O2 j; `* I" E- Gregory Benford& ~! a5 \/ S# z4 W% g! V# s3 K! A

" n1 E# f5 V- a6 ~1 K6 C) S3 b1 ]* dNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.& c& G9 N6 a3 ]- b, K6 o
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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  g" u& o0 p8 [4 H- g/ jI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
8 f/ }* M  ?5 G( z3 [- Thomas Edison  X' l$ A( w: Z: c- r/ o4 g. e
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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.& a8 f6 o  j# ~& l
- 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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. e& h5 d" L- k+ Q7 ]: dThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.3 j' l" ]0 E, {' ?
- Senator Bob Dole) F2 j2 N: Q6 {
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Computers 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.% L$ n" Z+ R6 J5 \; Q3 U
- 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.! w  `- d' f% O+ o+ c& {" @
- Andrew Heller, IBM, M$ K) P1 z, X* {+ m
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.3 T  G1 z: m! k4 n- u
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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7 R7 |4 l9 w( D5 s( J# C! C3 ]How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?  R- o# y! I  F, r
- Al Gore on Y2K
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2 C0 j! r9 u/ CThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
8 }5 J, j/ ^' p0 s" G+ W- 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 V: Z* B- `2 f. |) d4 r! y- Linus Torvalds! D- U. V8 s: \6 G

: D6 A- ~, p% }; i1 p& A9 T1 tTo 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.
3 g/ q/ X, [4 ~1 t1 P1 J, V% A' h4 e6 W- Linus Torvalds
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- P  n1 {6 o6 P2 S# ?( U* OWindows is just DOS in drag.
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( N+ ]4 u, W+ _9 kThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.  `- a* v1 R2 c4 N
- 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.
# T0 G+ i$ e9 `- a3 N3 ]+ T5 l8 e$ m- Thomas Edison& ~( R" R2 u# t6 i/ ?; {) j& X& w. \
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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