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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.0 M7 U0 I. C9 `; D/ M* j
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum9 ?7 b9 L1 B0 |& o# g3 g2 V+ B  c

  k7 v, M' M  ]# s! eWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
. R: t. x* i) r* Q- T.S. Elliot
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' M5 _: V* p: n2 Z640K ought to be enough for anybody.
. Z: g2 D, ~: s3 ?" |- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.2 k0 o  ], R0 }6 Z5 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.4 c/ K  z! K- e- r
- George Pompidou; a% z; d; f! h

) n: [0 U! J( B5 ETechnology 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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  U; e% y" |6 pFor 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.6 G1 }4 a# o& l
- Anonymous7 P) |% V5 c, o( y! e! N5 ~6 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.
- H5 [1 Y# ^) F7 j. w3 U- Andy Rooney2 r" X1 @$ D3 |

& }3 B6 R. m0 w, [# I! x1 @1 IIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.$ W+ b! z2 H! T4 w
- Richard Power
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" v7 P  L( y7 _I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
# N% x# |8 T" ?- T* l4 v8 q8 b- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19437 g# c2 x& j2 Y9 E0 x

/ o) e3 ^( N* _7 G$ HIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
6 Z: B- m9 ^" j- 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.+ F2 g% n" R* `2 v, u: W3 ]
- Anonymous
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4 p3 d/ ~' R- f, k5 c  \$ |If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
  O7 E+ B& [6 E5 z8 L- Bradley's Bromide  K/ k7 y( b+ j+ H: p! Z! T# [2 H
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
5 ]' {3 Z5 [( Q- a3 @7 @3 L- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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* w) F; F: N7 z$ u9 z0 jAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.
" \4 \# a& O: |- h/ u; y+ z- Jeremy S. Anderson
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$ C* A8 b/ V8 J6 g) b3 |5 x2 hOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.$ p- p" s' S0 r+ {7 H& V6 e- k
- Elbert Hubbard1 T$ y- ~6 N  O7 L& {

8 R  t5 v# |+ oAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
! r7 O+ f7 t7 f  e! X+ H8 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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; ?" s' E, i3 V) F$ g0 O3 M4 @/ q& qSave early, save often.$ |2 ~! [, {. e0 Y$ I
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.0 ~% N* p" p7 G$ F5 A* m2 A
- Proprietary developer adage# l/ N- E. W$ D: T
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Release early and release often.
2 M  U# E) O) x( W7 c- Open source developer adage
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5 u# m3 L" W" _: I( V) Y# AWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
3 h  h- Q9 i; |7 Z/ E/ d- Carl Sagan. E: J1 }1 F/ I2 g% Y

, J8 ~% o. W1 O5 f  k- M, \& uIf 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.% P* E# [5 p0 a7 D$ m' j
- Anonymous8 K9 C7 G0 ]' l. }* {- ]( ?

: C! I) Q$ k1 v. GThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.+ q9 a  E: K/ t
- Margaret Thatcher
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  S" N3 W3 X5 b0 K* ]The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
" f$ X& y3 F2 D, y3 g. z( K3 T- Jerry Olson2 E( x- @5 Y& K* f* J: I4 k
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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.* O* z4 a& L; e! u. |2 d' a
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.$ D7 o7 N& T5 p, }
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT- h4 a* ]. X: v( q1 K+ y3 u& X' r
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969  x* M$ m3 V8 t- e6 \1 {+ d
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
4 I3 N6 V1 i1 j" @/ Y8 `. K+ [$ `7 l% d- Arthur C. Clarke: A8 o, i5 e( q$ w4 J- t2 d

) e. D- `  I4 ^8 ^% k/ G, {9 c. |6 LAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
, n0 ~# _& J' l3 q- Gregory Benford
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: S% X: F5 o. f$ F0 {, X1 [Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.( ?. V) ?; b9 b' J8 P6 Y: T
- Anonymous
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+ }2 t9 t4 Y) v. cA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.# w9 i2 u: B3 ^% y2 z$ B8 ^
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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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.
3 B1 f, `* N, J* z9 A- 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' d4 F1 v0 [; r, Z  v; I- y

0 J% R' n( ^: m" V, c% \7 aThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.5 k$ f. L& v/ Z+ }
- 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.
6 x8 P* i! o6 i+ a0 I- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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& l+ y8 @' b. V' p From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
# d+ h0 r& D$ r- 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 g/ [7 g3 H5 T' U0 J6 W
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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3 ?3 e5 c( C1 H( gAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.' p$ i& |3 ~4 l6 Y
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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& k- L% j5 k0 O- ]4 cHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?& U/ {* q( a) @0 J) [9 s
- Al Gore on Y2K
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  D7 h: M. V/ M0 {The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
; W$ F* B/ B- m- O5 h$ Y- Sydney Brenner in 1927+ u0 x( l4 n' h2 k* V5 [( G+ f0 m

* u: ]. \9 A9 x6 q) T4 lThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.( T- {- u, E9 I( x
- Linus Torvalds! W" ~4 F( t) {: `: P
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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.* a+ |5 o0 ~$ g: m( s: m
- Linus Torvalds
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% x+ }# O! D4 p: e" n3 xWindows is just DOS in drag.
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& y& `# d( s' Z6 {9 d# VThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
! Y2 j" a% @# L& p  [' E- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
6 J6 v5 E6 d; \- I- b- Thomas Edison( _5 m6 ]4 h; \, m. c% j' ?
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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