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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.
4 V6 t8 Q. h& k: y: j- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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" m- i) x3 d, _9 iWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?1 d/ y& U- o; O
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
6 y/ r* Q' v' R5 D8 Z2 ~8 L$ ~- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do., l1 D' q- e$ `1 x4 z: S
- B. F. Skinner, E6 K/ n" O4 l0 L2 Z/ ?

/ ^5 x3 l1 e; L# a  \- fThere 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.& y& C) P3 R! R5 E1 f; v
- 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.! N! r/ l1 Q, L4 E2 l; L" K
- Anonymous
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2 J6 C2 h- k( p' Y- ^' B9 NFor 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 N6 }: f- d, s" I- Anonymous9 |  i/ G; k0 m) n6 }
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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.
; Y: o+ w) z( D6 i* m- Andy Rooney
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# j, P8 G8 ?' p2 f6 R7 ~In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.. U& K7 V& f: ]/ b2 \! m
- Richard Power6 C/ Y3 r% K! q$ E6 d
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
4 r, E1 `' A6 A( g" d3 D( Y. t- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943( s8 B2 Y0 Z! K8 f

7 G8 a. s7 [5 b. h1 {2 L' _7 nIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
: R: i5 ^( L* B- Scott Adams  E1 C6 a  L- {3 V; h0 s$ s. _
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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.% N/ T5 ]; i5 {
- Anonymous
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1 D$ ~  R( d9 h, S* R, Z: N7 KIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
+ p+ t  ^2 b! L( N3 \" H- Bradley's Bromide
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/ E) g: x0 d3 JThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.1 V7 l5 d- S3 S
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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6 Z5 h/ P/ j  i- NAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.$ F$ K0 p; D7 O5 V
- Anonymous
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7 B+ D5 x& _% Z0 w! V* y. jThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.' v/ J  B) D3 N# n" m$ i
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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# j  U+ Q6 q$ ROne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.+ c  u$ {. t: C7 ~
- Elbert Hubbard, h+ U# x. U, ~3 D4 O4 ^
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
% G! F+ [9 a4 H* }5 J7 n5 _- David Thornburg
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4 g! k; ]2 |0 Y! eThose 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.% A3 w2 R4 A0 P
- Anonymous
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) j% O% @$ M! aSave early, save often.% C* N. z% W4 o7 ~. g' p' Z
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word0 o! g1 c4 p$ p  R2 G1 M

- h) s0 y* G0 }# o. e0 o+ eBuild early and build often.% _  k# i4 f! C; d; A1 d
- Proprietary developer adage- A# k6 L; k/ {9 y5 z$ _: p& f8 v

% v# B3 c$ P8 b! f0 Y1 L0 m1 sRelease early and release often.' q" e" ~7 f$ [( w' ~1 C, `
- Open source developer adage8 p9 r& H1 U2 v  E
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
7 `# M) |& t5 E0 t& g( z- Carl Sagan
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! N: o( Y) E9 R/ ]4 A! k7 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.1 D$ ~% }7 r( Y) m
- Anonymous
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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.* k& s' v8 I7 L% S* x2 n# N# j
- Margaret Thatcher# W9 K3 z- ^$ D

' L  M4 o' w3 Z* G/ ^4 ^& f& |. EThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.% L+ y% O6 y4 w. }. A
- Jerry Olson
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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.
0 n- G/ O/ a, s4 w0 c9 G4 ^- Porterfield
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" C6 a& P- w& e- ^: xEverything that can be invented has been invented.) J+ i0 e: f, X* t% i1 n
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18996 k; q' _) ]3 O4 F9 M- X, k5 o( `( o

: A2 ?+ {* z2 G0 _; y6 VGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
1 V* t4 R/ }( ]3 K5 T# O; m- Fairchild Research and Development, 19699 p$ K) s6 x+ {1 J- G" j

$ d1 X. w6 @. ]' e9 M2 _1 LAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
5 z4 }* z  m- F- Arthur C. Clarke% t5 B4 @: H. ^& n* p; p

$ Q- }# P! z+ `; R' {1 _4 uAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
( u2 U) |; g% V8 ?; r- Gregory Benford
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& s* i* E$ O; Z' S! N9 {Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.8 m, i6 ?  h' z/ v6 M
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.) ?6 ~7 w# e1 h( ^* y2 `+ W
- Alan J. Perlis" d! Y- Z4 p3 r- ^/ ^  ~

1 g2 C( z. ?; y3 S: f. j3 PI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.4 `: ?' |+ Y1 d# a. G
- Thomas Edison
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: M3 J! t  V# Y# z6 tGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
( X  o' n! ~, B; ~- 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# v6 k* W7 W. P1 I$ `4 f, R+ N0 [
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.+ T* x' N' U# C% Y4 ^& ?1 {
- Senator Bob Dole7 e* s3 D, Z  w) E. \' z4 ]! Y
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.7 o. X) w3 B' c6 J! u" y5 Q
- Popular Mechanics, 19492 V$ q: V5 H+ S: M' E& K
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
1 x9 m0 \: W" I: K$ f2 ^- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy5 r. P3 L8 d: l* x  _( Y; Y$ n0 k7 k

8 e; m1 R9 a0 y' s6 MTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes., ?* ]( q3 f( S0 Q4 M' B% K. \% V
- Andrew Heller, IBM5 ?0 m4 O8 c% V5 ?% i6 O0 R

' `  ~; L4 N, ZAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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$ Z! `5 n" @0 w$ v. ^The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
; V& Y) r/ Y; }4 e8 N& T3 M- Sydney Brenner in 1927- i" I" C6 X, u8 O

( I/ R; `  S8 @3 I5 P6 WThe 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.
$ N5 r$ B2 x7 h( }2 Y: w/ h- Linus Torvalds9 U* q% K: ^1 s3 B

1 B5 m2 S; S$ ]# `" dWindows is just DOS in drag.
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$ s0 ]: [" L/ P: sThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
8 T% M; o0 `( c4 b' z- 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.  [0 ?8 t- `. M, U% s
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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