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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.
3 ]) o  p3 k" D% G5 c3 U$ \- Andrew S. Tannenbaum: O, c* y2 z7 g: p# w9 \* A; ^+ n
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?$ q& d$ m1 p& @) Z$ b+ o9 t
- T.S. Elliot* k+ F: |; E4 v$ ?" o
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.. B* {' ^+ i0 f3 X$ a, d
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981, a8 [, V2 X* a) U

' B' }+ G2 v$ }& vThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.1 ]/ V1 P' F5 {
- 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.
1 u9 l+ u( k& K5 R- 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.; J& h, S3 A- o2 ~6 O' [
- Anonymous, j2 V1 U' X, f' v  u1 V# j5 o/ I
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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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1 X6 G+ J; ]5 }, W4 E! QComputers 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.- Q' n( z4 s$ b
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
1 N, e( q7 `$ i: P9 v- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943- ^( d3 }2 a0 q7 X9 c

  F  D0 j) V8 U) }If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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. z2 m0 \  O" g+ O, @In 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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: C0 W. x* M5 w1 wIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.- _; G8 [: {7 ^4 {6 {
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.# e8 o+ O5 M1 R# y
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric% q: h2 r9 l# A* @) W, C  ?* m

8 W5 f! H3 a+ o! s: zAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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& e2 m6 Y% K" [# y. O6 Z9 i4 gThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
) {. S, ~. Q+ p5 p- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
! }/ A& l3 Y: E8 O& S1 X, W' `- David Thornburg) l0 p+ F! L5 e' w* Q5 w
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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.$ ~4 ~6 Q# G1 M" F/ c1 o& x# m  N
- Anonymous4 A/ H$ i7 |, U+ W# D
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Save early, save often." A) {& U' v+ f2 [- S: F
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
: G" i6 }3 @9 V: ]9 A- Proprietary developer adage7 e' t% Q1 r/ j' z4 V/ z/ x& S: l3 p
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Release early and release often.: D' C1 E* \$ u2 k" u, m0 L0 w
- Open source developer adage* ^7 B/ y! W' C* E4 @

+ ?9 Q$ r1 E8 p+ L$ XWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
6 o, A( w  F6 ~8 D9 s# Z% \* F' Y- Carl Sagan
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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.( S; S; _3 C( L( z
- Anonymous3 ?2 I/ l$ A- @6 E, C' W& ?

$ Y7 R8 [& k5 `8 q+ V) X. [, kThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
% y; u/ G8 Z& @- s- y6 s% a) L- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.5 S9 h. I" b7 f6 A( A4 x7 [
- Jerry Olson  ?1 ?! U. n7 [: Z2 P+ _( {

! r" g6 D$ U/ c: ]  [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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+ f8 l2 C$ @& B. zEverything that can be invented has been invented.2 h: E: N) c: `8 z
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18997 C4 p* s% C* s- X$ [9 f$ s% m8 c

( O0 O9 _/ d0 X6 I4 O0 N, YGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT. C( x: D, U: k4 ?- m
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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0 o5 V: r* y6 I, w# WAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic./ n1 m) z! S8 |- _$ H0 W' l
- Arthur C. Clarke
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, x3 i  Y5 Z2 Z3 D- F* {5 m& MAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.* G6 e5 S% \9 |: g- Z& n0 r# r
- Gregory Benford7 B4 d1 |, ~4 q( b9 z" @

) Q: b3 h6 n8 D  Q/ LNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.5 S6 W: I  k, `, y
- Alan J. Perlis+ k9 ~+ O) T, s0 }8 u* a( X
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
' r9 Z& T! w; T- Thomas Edison
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! M3 N  R  A2 ?: N3 AGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
& }" f% y6 _2 t- 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./ k" ^7 W- q' L# o3 g  }! c, \
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.' K* z# z8 s/ M, R  V% i& i3 n
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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% b: U! s6 R7 u# f! D# c7 o From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.- h- s5 L9 d9 O  R' X1 g$ D
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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+ ^. D7 I8 s0 E" M4 S- w  HTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
& Q+ O3 a" y% ~+ F- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.# i% m$ Z  m7 i( B" E5 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?
- X& g, [8 L, }* y1 y4 \" V  X- Al Gore on Y2K
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0 b8 R6 q, x8 ?! H" E( k# sThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.. c5 B4 ~+ l) `2 l9 C8 \; e$ E) i: a
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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% ?9 h6 s4 ^  ?& e) G$ `, V6 SThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.7 w1 ?: o! U# l( {! G8 }) p1 b9 m
- 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.6 r, @+ Z+ |3 {+ H8 w
- Linus Torvalds0 P- K( H$ q& y# d

( x2 h4 S/ W8 A8 NWindows is just DOS in drag.* K3 J- g. R* q5 e" q
- Anonymous
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* B) U4 A- U" T- L+ NThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.# n; z; @/ F& W  C
- 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.+ E7 t. c- M% r/ o0 f# W9 l: r; s% \2 q
- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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