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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." [, @: o2 X$ h
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum5 ?' y4 c/ t( T# x
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?: `" r% O7 a5 \% V( ~( o: v
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody./ ~+ s) Z: }' t: g2 N+ W$ d3 s9 A; f: M
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19817 W2 J: G, x% v, }, l

0 i$ J* L+ W. b2 L( _2 b7 W# h* vThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.1 g0 ~) D  V9 R, g/ v8 E5 x, E
- B. F. Skinner6 H4 G4 q  X, B. J  I0 G- G" d9 v

3 ~3 w8 ~5 e4 T/ i6 c0 c6 D2 ]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.& b6 t  _" x' l0 H* P8 j3 n  R
- George Pompidou3 n% b$ G3 o8 A3 ?$ V8 F; ]
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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.: l* X: U1 z0 U+ K6 I
- Anonymous9 r6 k, w% r9 c) |
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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.5 L8 Q& t  ~( g* S- a/ n
- Anonymous7 y/ J' K  v& n' Y  P

' a3 U) {8 r6 f) q( b- nComputers 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.
" J, d. H. q+ y' ?- Andy Rooney9 N3 G. T0 I; C
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
, G* G$ @) A& o) I: J- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.9 B- F+ o- x( u& Q( p) `' @
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943% }. }9 C. {' i! f" l; i4 H( l% O

: ?! u+ |5 W, s2 `# {* @7 KIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
) O. \2 a; C' h( U, N# c, q$ Y- 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.2 y" ^5 e5 b1 i& v, m
- Anonymous$ w5 W1 J6 h6 j8 I% F
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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. m" x) t0 b) w3 n' iThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
4 N) g! i1 L7 B4 h" Y- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric0 P/ N- C( ]  h% X. Q5 w" l9 U

9 ~3 \5 i  a4 e0 j8 R) M1 wAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
6 u3 Z' z; A+ u3 b- Anonymous' t7 l2 x  S. J& L2 g
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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.
$ u; p9 n: A, N; E6 q* |8 s- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.' b* B) d( L: T; y* @  p# J
- Elbert Hubbard
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3 o! p# G4 B6 sAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
  m8 V' \9 ]5 m$ Y- 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.4 Y/ F! X, _0 U8 k0 \0 [
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Save early, save often.3 t( X9 e. I) n; ~$ H
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.# s. n* Z# B8 A
- Proprietary developer adage2 f0 ^, u2 r7 h  O; N% @9 N

. k' l4 Y3 K* d; G' Q' R( fRelease early and release often.
3 D% ^- |: p7 \. ^: f1 e- Open source developer adage" [  k/ n& j  M$ {* E5 V

6 q. w3 M* U5 N  h: a- o& CWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
* m  M* \, ?. h$ r- ]1 e- Carl Sagan
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6 {$ s. f4 R" L& YIf 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 f1 Z" \5 ^+ m( c: k- Anonymous$ D/ A5 x" j4 @# |. c" x# Q2 O
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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.
0 e) S* K7 g) d: _3 U5 I% x- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
% x- ~3 x0 d/ R7 K# Z6 V  B) `- Jerry Olson* V( F, z, X- c; `- T! s
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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.& m0 t" r& p" ^) k* O
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.; R# S$ L- @$ ?) l4 W- [) y' |6 T7 z
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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, `- x7 r' [7 ]1 d% [GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
; y/ ?6 u! i$ Q' A  k4 c. }- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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+ x% k0 X( M. m& |& q6 I2 G2 \Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.0 M# K2 B  Y: h1 H- O  s; b% h
- Arthur C. Clarke5 M6 K) O2 O# O1 c

$ @) u! b4 [$ N$ c) k4 oAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.4 A9 V' N' m/ U, k: E5 d9 V  e
- Gregory Benford
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- K, s6 T8 d0 ~. |2 ENever let a computer know you're in a hurry.  E  b7 u* ^! v  x" z% C) D
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.( J/ L- [3 z* U/ _
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.1 D( I1 b1 v( c) X/ e4 u8 D+ x9 v
- Thomas Edison: \& b& O9 f; \2 h9 I4 E
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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.
7 B8 Y3 U" `' p4 t' p% 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
. W  d5 t9 i- |6 O; p! _- 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.: o8 H& i$ d8 P+ V
- Popular Mechanics, 19495 P! @" i: f; J, t" ]: f
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
9 r6 Q6 Y0 Z  H+ B+ y; m8 X$ h- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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% r7 i, }- w# f2 I: pTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
5 ]3 e* ^* Q/ ^9 k' K  N3 T- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.& {4 h1 |3 T! k7 ~3 P
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos7 ^. p/ d; K* t8 J4 ]3 ]  h5 S) @

# B% R/ e2 g% q( _How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
' q5 S# |! ^. E6 ~* e- Al Gore on Y2K% Z( f0 Z, o/ U% J4 ^7 F
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
8 u5 b+ p' K2 a/ [7 A0 ^; T4 q* J& D4 K- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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$ {% K% s: n5 y0 wThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
9 D) B: w. R  x( C  b  ^4 ~* |- Linus Torvalds2 j- R7 c0 F( ~  Q- B
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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.
- C  A( G* E& N& f4 @- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.0 l' x; S) ]8 z( B
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 H+ q2 f* D0 t# r: e/ W- 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.
6 k7 H- [& l5 |5 k$ y  _8 n- Thomas Edison5 `7 l2 @1 A0 u1 j. z' X3 c

) _1 ~0 Y8 Y! xEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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