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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.
& u: ^3 T8 d" `7 {8 q* e; \- Andrew S. Tannenbaum6 j+ B+ Y( G2 [% ?; \

  }6 Y- A$ h8 m) A. q1 \" zWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
9 j1 x* ?$ r7 o8 J. P2 V- T.S. Elliot
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3 E4 {( ^! S. f) p0 y7 m- \+ k2 `% c6 ?% V640K ought to be enough for anybody.! |' ?1 V, Z( J0 T# I% _0 Z6 {
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981) P, \% U5 o) D2 h& z; R

7 H0 z: `7 ^% NThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- ^; G1 X5 L0 S. `- B. F. Skinner
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# i: {- C7 b* C4 U: VThere 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.
& A6 U: I! |7 i! g8 t4 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.8 X1 _# Z) {* N
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$ o0 Y. x) E& W3 X* _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.
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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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.) K. \6 ?3 b1 k7 h; S; ~5 j
- Richard Power$ B" s' b2 X  `6 {
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
7 F" O/ |' S/ w7 X- N- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943  w. M( w9 D1 ~
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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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) E: I( e/ B  N  z( GIn 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.( g& \  ]3 S) {: f7 o7 L! ^/ J
- Bradley's Bromide, @, I; l# H+ N- R6 Q! E
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.$ \) {" w$ \$ c' y, L# P
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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. `- Y: Z% y& \2 {7 w. Q& j; e# k( T% Q: ]At 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.
$ N6 k9 P" r; t% c* M# _  M- 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.
* T" Y( ?& n& L& q7 u9 ~  f- Elbert Hubbard( ~2 w+ F/ f+ D3 S) I0 ^
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
9 J9 W9 b* n. G( S# ^/ ?" u) d1 ~: V- David Thornburg8 w0 x7 [1 ]+ ?% E# r# i

# G7 C0 B; W4 }, ^( P9 NThose 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.$ g& q( X, y6 j
- Anonymous. g" Q% u& I% k: O. F) {' m1 b" |

# C/ [0 g& m2 |  U$ kSave early, save often., z6 u- R' s9 q1 m9 k6 A8 u0 K
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word% ~: {+ x0 V$ O; C$ L- G; R
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Build early and build often.
2 t/ f" Y9 V- S* \5 _0 ]( G! L- Proprietary developer adage8 [' J  L6 C( K# r' B2 N3 f
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Release early and release often.9 p. D% T  R9 g& L4 T/ H
- Open source developer adage
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( I, W- F- b2 R0 R& vWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 _8 {/ c0 D3 a3 I- Carl Sagan8 M, a( M& ]  k- r+ v% T

( ?) l, R" I6 a8 H/ l) w% RIf 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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! W- j) I7 D0 X% jThere 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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) h+ K, |" e) {0 {8 QThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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. X* M' s# v, t9 f: x, W, jThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.. }! S6 C, k1 }' ?# D
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.: K4 H+ H  k' r% ^8 M
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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' i" h; f. x, a4 B8 F" w1 f# ]  tGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
5 b6 x7 ~( T, n+ T& ?- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
/ o' q) d/ _( F- Arthur C. Clarke0 L1 y! x1 q3 T% f" E" Q; L* h

% O$ G# T- y3 l5 R. ]5 tAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
* Q9 M3 r/ L4 Q- Gregory Benford& j' z& J2 R% @1 E& ~7 w# _, a
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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.- h, T6 a0 L! G) Z7 p% Z% r
- Alan J. Perlis
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! K# c  e; y2 L4 e6 G5 _0 gI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.) f' L% h% n( o- Z+ a5 e2 T4 K5 R
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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.
2 K7 D9 Z; |* x- x- 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 developed9 o8 F  i7 E/ D9 |/ E

2 o' o9 T! A5 p) Z& m1 @The Internet is a great way to get on the net.1 x1 Q* z- C; x* _5 h2 \4 u, v" P
- Senator Bob Dole
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2 R) _+ j, s4 O' h/ c6 Q4 n! TComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.& x$ X* ?  v! [  o8 b! T
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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$ `. z$ t" G' o* v) I From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.9 o: T9 [  O( G0 B. ?: n/ f9 P
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy4 x3 t/ U% k% m" ]: w) \

+ ?. |3 w+ W9 n0 i$ T1 @( C+ [Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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AOL 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?
& W; F7 d4 ~9 Y* e3 `8 z; G( k7 p- Al Gore on Y2K( l  D; K  N$ j' }1 C8 T" C

4 m- ~% H: j. ?# i8 \' X8 QThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
# I( E2 V. _# @. S5 l' N7 ?- Sydney Brenner in 1927* l( q9 L! ]/ Y- ~! Y  b
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.% n& L1 ~8 v0 Z! `  e! b
- 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.; K4 U* u; s+ p! J9 R, N
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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.5 j. K" T/ P, k% X/ `& i. J5 }
- 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.5 l( W4 E" h1 }- o- d4 E% \
- Thomas Edison
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$ @/ }) ~& V; ?9 ^Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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