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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.
$ X4 X9 [; i6 S2 c: j5 ]1 \- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?' U5 r# q  v( z
- T.S. Elliot5 t! {& }: h. j$ ?: x* d

! Z) a& C% ~0 [. ^' M( m+ d3 G640K ought to be enough for anybody.0 _0 J9 G8 O' \" B0 P7 V: ^4 w5 E
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19816 d2 t4 _9 u) w' \% _  ~
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
5 {7 a5 O/ x$ ?6 A5 Q6 |# y- B. F. Skinner: L$ c: O5 j4 A# N, A

8 }! D: b; v% ]! c7 `" g: z( 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.
7 ?  [/ f$ c* f: U8 v. y- 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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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.2 U) S0 ^8 Y: ]. A
- Anonymous- W& f# R, i0 m6 E" n

8 M& u, ?8 N6 |2 i+ x1 rComputers 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.- z" J. F1 g, f0 J
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
7 z. C# f; Q8 H0 [5 M6 n- Richard Power$ i' ?! J# n* r) c  E' d* Z

( V1 ?8 [# }8 @5 WI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
$ M4 x2 C$ C6 J' W8 @+ T6 `7 h- z- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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5 v2 h6 h; S( z* vIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.7 m  f3 b3 G3 X5 {4 J' d! W
- Scott Adams% F) e7 x" B0 ?! i: X- ?
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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.# z+ d9 |$ o: a4 |; B; O) @* T
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
$ u& Z5 m: D9 c  `- Bradley's Bromide. ~% ~  x" j# O

0 h. }! b- ?) p4 p2 gThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 g+ b* b3 d4 C: ^/ x# Y0 R& U9 U- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric$ `7 M) Q- R. g  E7 O/ g

& {. S8 M% K4 }; \6 cAt 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.
$ h/ q& l5 {) J" W: E- Jeremy S. Anderson( t3 `: o) u" d) l# M4 E9 v

! ]$ |3 R! j  d+ r/ h4 ]One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
' W$ n4 z: o/ N- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.! z/ b* Q( E1 V% x1 O
- David Thornburg& y1 a& @1 @! u* b5 w

2 `$ A9 O. ~) xThose 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 v" v, R8 F- O* S. U& e/ @, p2 `Save early, save often.
! h* m: S' e# U# v8 B7 `- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
" n: ~  i, ~0 D( H) x3 a$ I! V- Proprietary developer adage0 Z0 f3 S) I7 A- h

! Z7 O7 n: U' B  x7 A4 kRelease early and release often.
7 u) j' h* Z( F/ S0 d8 O/ U7 z4 m1 k- Open source developer adage' Z, {3 Q9 U  T: S# E" l

/ a7 H8 q, L: @& f& J+ C8 d- N: kWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
" m8 }; t% [  f2 b# l, {  O* A- Carl Sagan3 T4 O. x# B8 X; q1 m9 l
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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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/ o+ A, I0 i2 @& T) q; EThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.5 P$ s5 M+ s) {: n1 V
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon./ Z, U" b# P& J7 m4 u! `
- Jerry Olson. K" [0 j" z" P$ f* @0 Z$ c

0 H' A: f6 s* }- F" gThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.+ x% m" E& \, N7 U0 H+ ?$ Y, M, G
- Porterfield( J9 m6 d/ F* M2 f" l
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
0 J$ C; e. r( p" B5 K- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899# \$ V3 w0 P4 r  Z

. c5 }: V* ], C- L: b# XGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
; o5 e" O9 g. B* }# P$ a+ @- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969' e0 w1 ~- c8 z" z, h% a1 x2 m: h/ I
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
2 |9 z. A# [. d1 H! C4 e9 T' e- Arthur C. Clarke! f) S* }8 n, ?. @

/ C5 W: j6 o+ k7 ]0 R6 J- dAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
; p+ I- P% `) j8 v7 f- Gregory Benford
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Never 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.
& t0 x3 A! L& c1 `- Alan J. Perlis
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# a3 v& e$ T- m/ _) A, ^% pI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
, O, E! K! ]: w; s4 y- Thomas Edison' i5 U$ R$ S- ]* L5 ?3 n9 l" E9 R

  Q5 o( X/ s) O5 B; `7 p2 cGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
- x3 L  x' N; B" W2 |: i- 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.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
) J; e$ j1 N5 g5 m) _3 t, N- Popular Mechanics, 1949( Z  c1 M! H+ ?- w0 C# \5 r  [$ M
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
7 ~" K2 p  f! l; n. `! n( d8 j- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy5 q+ y' q+ A. i  |3 q" R! l/ D4 }
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
% m4 l9 _8 Q5 g& y+ A* ^- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
: N) ]( ?9 U' V& e- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos, }- `! h' W8 {& Y) }

* a1 q* `: L2 @+ a8 y- S8 }) _2 fHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?) A- a7 N: W3 v- k; C3 l
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.2 K: D' g2 `8 Z5 n8 H9 Q) G
- Sydney Brenner in 19279 ^% E+ M* w) |. z8 n* K  Q
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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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.
/ i! K. ^7 t$ ~- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
2 K  q8 H/ V$ Q2 Y' Y, e* `& N# j- 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.% F) }  r& y* ?
- Thomas Edison3 q1 ]# x. A2 b7 G/ Z
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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