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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., s# e4 S- f$ h9 y
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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' j- i9 T/ R4 w+ Y, A. uWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?5 n3 ?; a. h; D3 X5 o: S! y
- T.S. Elliot
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+ [8 M$ I7 {. J# _  E# t640K ought to be enough for anybody.
8 V0 Y$ v, @( F- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981' Z: w% P3 k2 k8 ^/ F0 u+ X7 Y0 C5 D
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
+ }% g' `3 j1 d; w! L( 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.: E! g$ J5 R9 u) X, \1 x8 M( o
- George Pompidou/ J  y9 _9 c& z

( V! e% A: _2 F$ E4 M. W& S1 QTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
( G- X* M* `' l! v- Anonymous
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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.& y* I& `0 I% i! f" v* I7 n
- Anonymous8 ]' Q9 S$ T9 z7 u1 ~
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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.
" O* U: k$ I. u- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
! g* ~# W! l4 i7 n0 \* b- Richard Power
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- H$ g& L8 f2 _4 Z0 B* w; oI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
: R) P3 d# {- V, W& |/ g- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19436 p7 }, O) A. m, T0 M

. U/ Q5 V/ L. A7 i( w& NIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.' C& g/ a2 J3 X" b1 B5 g
- 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.. w9 L3 O6 `1 X6 J  b3 H7 H
- Anonymous$ F% D! Q5 P- X$ F& t
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.- n$ D, Z% X: h5 l; o
- Bradley's Bromide  @& B/ E1 M; K! j( t. c

3 q6 f7 Z$ i" a) F( x- ?4 Z, h" rThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 N5 Z$ @: V- q/ k# N0 y- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
; L# Q6 z) I6 s6 l- Anonymous
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+ I3 b3 L3 |  W  _. T8 U9 q/ pThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.8 R1 r: a% v6 }, X
- Jeremy S. Anderson# m5 o3 v$ @6 W& u7 l

  `+ [) s0 K6 D1 }' n! |3 g' l8 NOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.9 l5 ]! s0 v0 z  E5 s
- Elbert Hubbard
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; E: f9 Y- m: u- q' VAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.. b4 ?/ q( r$ ]2 Y, i  u5 y7 K
- David Thornburg" @, Q- A# }( u+ l' |" M2 Q' z% D! ?
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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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5 g6 G( |, M6 E' `Save early, save often.) S( e# [8 Q8 G" [8 C  Z
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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! _* }+ W' {9 W( X7 I- aBuild early and build often.
9 r6 J( g2 u+ @. J- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
2 _4 d  ^9 a6 F( X, e0 @  v- Open source developer adage& ~/ S. O& b1 G7 D
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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.
7 c) g5 q$ }$ T! V& h- Carl Sagan, Y3 v0 g8 c1 F7 u2 l

9 j( ^- G# z( ?1 qIf 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.9 z1 i5 T; j; }0 R& A
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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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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
  p& _6 C8 f% w7 x0 N: d- 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.# x4 \; ]4 e" G  E: [: q
- Porterfield' K; t* i6 c- ^+ V/ w6 x9 Y
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
0 v" q0 X0 l8 ^. L" {- g- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. o. j( X1 }1 i7 {) {6 |$ ]' I

$ x) r& \7 x+ \/ C' Z" U  ^GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT: J3 g% C- }! M6 B8 U$ D: f0 S4 d
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19695 l/ I2 a0 p+ E4 y. v6 c5 b: h" j
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- P' t# X9 z3 h8 @* G- Arthur C. Clarke
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2 H1 b2 T0 m7 o: G4 Y& e% mAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.& h. {. ^7 e% D! g) Z
- Gregory Benford; j/ [1 G4 z2 Q) t* N, F

! V. u; U: w) T% gNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.9 n# e! y& a( Z. X/ {3 p( o2 L
- Anonymous; `( V" s' G& C
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.( L9 E" i0 l$ H) y& D6 ~
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
* f+ [" _: D3 v- Thomas Edison; l! a1 Z# ]; @; J; Y6 ?
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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.% r, f3 |/ h0 _3 ~/ R4 z
- 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. t/ S& R/ n. H( ~

1 D' K8 K& q. l8 w) F" d9 L4 p1 IThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: y9 y. o) ]( R& H2 u7 }- Senator Bob Dole( e( N% s2 a9 n- ?

& |3 `" B. p$ E7 |6 R8 \+ DComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
. z! i% Y6 M! e+ Q- Popular Mechanics, 19495 x/ e) J6 B6 q  ?2 ]+ c5 q
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
+ C( P' q- S5 l$ R- Andrew Heller, IBM
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8 y/ Q' V. z" C! |* YAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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' V5 J5 k5 x& l+ \2 L* B# T# m& PHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
4 S8 ~/ L. U' b( y- Al Gore on Y2K$ s' I5 o- G4 I+ b& U) l2 T
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.. T( X4 ?% }5 R8 W! S
- Sydney Brenner in 1927" R' c+ t* k& y3 l

7 M; t/ C' o9 ~: S$ LThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.7 `2 T  I# n/ j2 m1 B% _4 k
- 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.: }( ]( [* v7 i* R" ?- @
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Windows is just DOS in drag.; N; W" S# w  d1 o$ Y- g3 w# D
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4 l. N: @0 N. u& _9 LThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
% e: }& K2 d6 Q  j. m# z- 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.
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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