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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.
! m1 w% T* B2 t7 F3 m$ h- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?/ ~6 c& B% d: C7 w
- T.S. Elliot, [# c6 ^7 v+ r) B2 O: |

3 W) {4 M& V0 ^* K( B/ }' g640K ought to be enough for anybody./ Z5 D( D/ Y* c/ H: y) E4 l8 r
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19811 t, u5 g  {$ Z, L6 b4 h3 p

' ^0 m9 u1 K- _# QThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.
0 b3 y3 r3 e) c6 G# p5 i) g- 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.
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4 M. W1 C" d5 C9 B% zFor 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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- j" y( ?6 O- l$ d& C5 UComputers 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.& A8 q  f- x5 q
- Andy Rooney" x4 Z- O# a# R

+ w- x( M( R: a  BIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
' k5 L& w( B1 l- Richard Power7 F+ M1 A7 ]6 I& n; u/ M
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.9 R% v( T7 b- X) D" ]  B- R
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.0 z* k* z. A( V
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business./ @5 E7 Z5 c' l& h! s) b7 v7 J  o
- 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.; u+ `& Y0 K1 `$ M0 F% H
- 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.
0 }7 s! S; ?# @. {- S1 a- Jeremy S. Anderson) R4 x, e" x' F; @1 [9 E
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
/ U! j5 g& c8 l- Elbert Hubbard% P+ v# p! e, T  W4 n! R0 @7 X2 w7 {
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be." U( x+ H- L' h  j9 a; B* |( _
- David Thornburg6 _9 J* S3 k) t6 \8 p- z
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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.  ~$ b+ W) E( m8 r; i0 K8 ^
- Anonymous4 s, c0 B( r* R% u/ E
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Save early, save often.4 B& {# [9 v9 l) B! B" a6 a
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word3 g5 {  h  H$ {( n8 {2 h
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Build early and build often.. [2 i: ~4 q% o/ ~! x! w  g
- Proprietary developer adage
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& r4 D. O) _$ sRelease early and release often.. z( o3 e5 A; h* K' x: {
- Open source developer adage
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2 u/ ~$ R/ K5 `% L% _; uWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
/ x# B% D0 e' ]9 ^# {- Carl Sagan8 \, q5 b, [3 G  ~; h& p
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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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6 C& D9 v) N0 y2 r  {/ P. hThere 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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7 f& |& y8 _! y  o. {' Y- SThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
1 [2 s8 ?3 Y$ L2 G8 s( a9 Z- Jerry Olson
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- f- J1 x& P& L, MThe 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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" v7 c* n& X- Q% R$ L6 H9 M0 \, ?Everything that can be invented has been invented.. i3 y& ~1 Q5 {/ q/ r% F: d
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
1 ^% N. w* X( R( H! W+ X- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.& |/ }# `2 L9 y. M: _# J. ?4 a
- Arthur C. Clarke/ P% X' q% i/ g5 O0 O# Z
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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.# J% [) _" P# Q% J- g
- Anonymous
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, ?* h& @: `, B- Q: QA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God., b% m( W+ l% Q  W
- Alan J. Perlis
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2 K- x/ G; U1 X0 ~& _! FI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
( i. E  h; S& c" k# J) ^9 s9 x" X- Thomas Edison
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* k7 y! P  x, l$ a. bGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product." Z6 a3 s0 [3 u  i; o3 ^
- 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! x4 j& g7 j. I/ ~* _# c7 g' W
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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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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* f- Y5 z8 B# h( n From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it./ B' e% V$ b2 h3 P* @7 S
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy6 ?; v) f: O# I2 V7 ], ?+ w' F- G$ i

: J" _( k  P5 \& z, yTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
) Q& m/ f. B9 h5 G! A# g- Andrew Heller, IBM
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7 t8 E1 l) w1 E5 A0 C, a* pAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
4 e5 X4 j2 D5 R! n$ {' Y& F- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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, Z& u7 d+ e- {. A, j, M) `How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?. k; w/ ^, c5 w
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
; B/ a+ o/ G* ^8 m- Sydney Brenner in 19279 v. \% \9 N9 ^1 |  [' M- W& M) f

5 Q/ \* K. [5 e2 j3 u  N8 N6 c! QThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.% Z& V" A* _# Q( j7 g3 d  y
- 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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. m4 j4 X& N$ ^( [, b9 V# d7 r5 hThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 B" P  p) C( B5 w8 f7 d6 g- 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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