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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.
* c, J0 M7 n* u  E# u) t$ n- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?2 \2 [- K. ]& x! X+ G0 Y& y
- T.S. Elliot7 {5 K) |/ R4 m1 B% K

/ _2 q5 ]3 [7 ^640K ought to be enough for anybody.9 l0 d- f* s) h) n
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do., o5 z: f7 u" d$ c
- B. F. Skinner  o! m! e, g* L% I0 ?

2 Z) L( X& A4 L& HThere 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.
' G  U3 {2 ~+ M, U1 t5 g- George Pompidou% C4 m( l! w. u* Q
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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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6 w1 y, `8 `5 ~6 I5 vFor 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.( v6 j# `# ?5 z% ]! V7 F1 D  v
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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.
& J; _1 G% j0 T6 M/ n: a3 f8 B7 q- Andy Rooney
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5 Z5 ~4 c" i8 u5 K' }' I$ xIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.  ?, P8 K8 v9 e# T
- Richard Power
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# ^. n& J8 F1 ]9 s! i; AI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
/ t& h8 p; Q  Q- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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+ ?4 ^2 k& G5 f, f7 d( A' a: aIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.* _/ G( `% w* X. O/ _. Y
- Scott Adams
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.9 P! O  i+ t+ g5 W4 |+ a
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.5 q! M8 d3 d4 Z: @$ f. l% B
- Bradley's Bromide
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2 W4 X, V: K- N% q: eThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
5 L- n& e/ ~1 `% H1 X- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric: W8 c/ L0 A7 [  `5 ?. p& R

6 C6 t: @$ |8 J; N5 R/ v) GAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.' r; t$ w7 I. k
- Anonymous" U' n/ R4 [, |3 [4 J/ K" ~

1 v3 l! v! [- i5 ]6 T9 P* V3 O7 JThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
' a" P7 W/ H, Z0 Z1 w+ g- 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.' O9 q- b# @9 n2 T7 O) `
- Elbert Hubbard6 d, Y4 O3 v$ N* u
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.3 P, ~+ W0 e  @  S$ f9 h& U
- David Thornburg
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/ g  u. T; D  Q  MThose 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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, x! d( X- R' q' {4 F: tSave early, save often.
' U' M9 Q, g( z) E9 q' X. i. R* H- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
  w& W- f, C% X* a8 z' u0 b- Proprietary developer adage
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* I2 \. b: Z' V# _3 u6 D) jRelease early and release often.
, h; Z. H! ?8 X3 |: g- 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.
8 J, I! p  l6 r1 m5 {- Carl Sagan6 ]& h- Y* V+ G& }+ _, a7 T

+ B! _7 ?- {3 \9 N5 {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.4 c3 }; F% g, Y9 Z* B" ~
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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.
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- v, ^2 r: a, |( }) D- NThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.9 \( L1 l8 Y. D8 u  f
- Jerry Olson& |, Q$ y5 H; @2 `* {

& \2 U4 k( b3 Z8 \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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, K' C2 |' I0 d; f2 QEverything that can be invented has been invented.
/ |: i  b) N3 D: }( g- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, Q( S; P( J8 c/ y. J! t7 g

2 B4 k0 V5 X( [- }! }+ rGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
) a8 {9 F2 ]9 I! p9 v( I- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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- ^9 P& n" W4 ~, YAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
8 g6 }7 W  D, u2 e+ }- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.' y% u- E+ ~, {
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1 C1 R% }+ l' m5 MA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.9 u$ u& i4 Z5 j5 D; [
- Alan J. Perlis' K( |$ ^' n7 P* Z3 Y* E1 A
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.1 a2 J0 H+ I& W7 U
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+ o" c$ m/ f8 A2 D# `Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
4 a/ K' Y' A: u$ h7 Z6 s. B3 R- 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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$ P) G, W& A$ {% {% _The Internet is a great way to get on the net.9 L7 A" p2 J. o: w' W' A4 K
- Senator Bob Dole  W! r* W" a: R& e: \3 W
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.9 e3 `5 ]2 H0 @: Q
- Popular Mechanics, 1949" G5 u; z, w9 ?
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
) j+ S/ q& a) Z9 N5 u7 E' d- 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.$ r+ k( y8 ~2 a9 F+ I% l) T
- Andrew Heller, IBM' p3 O1 j' [) i: Y$ w

5 E. D4 b' H& ?& n2 [, v% k6 VAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.6 @% G+ F* v7 H# I# y
- 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?4 z- S2 a0 m- W7 X
- Al Gore on Y2K0 ^7 I1 `% \! I6 i; C1 |, F# ]- O

; P& R3 ^3 B: C; C: B8 O; AThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
' U5 K4 F3 X! _0 R. N' G0 }6 [- 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.
" x! {2 m7 b  y& c2 S9 M9 @7 j# X) Q- Linus Torvalds
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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.. G! ]  U" x6 l$ L6 V
- Linus Torvalds7 t( [$ ^9 R  ], I/ N

  G( Y. W0 N* gWindows is just DOS in drag., G( h8 d6 n) e/ X, g! Y- u
- Anonymous2 i$ x6 u( J1 K* N' f

/ z" H4 Z, a* k  L6 l5 Z. W9 @There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
. }* g0 n0 `) l# u- 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.
( }& p( ^2 q3 x- {& X. k- Thomas Edison4 _: w6 @7 p) T0 G1 J4 b
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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