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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.
2 F3 [4 v! D! C. |3 l; |9 Y, h- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.4 l$ ~; e9 U- V
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981" a( G& V  M' @5 k' {; Q& U, {  Z

9 F5 l* d1 }8 Z4 {The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.$ H- Y: E. [: M8 {& g
- B. F. Skinner5 b; X: H1 A" g3 k
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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.
+ g/ c" ], ^( W- 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.1 n4 ?& f5 P% q) ^# R; Z
- Anonymous& _$ g# h7 A; C  L
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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.  w. Y4 R$ p. |: X0 C& a/ G
- Andy Rooney
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6 z' d/ ^. H9 ^+ w2 e0 a) z' ^In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.. i! a3 w: `6 t8 o% i* f
- Richard Power+ F6 d! X, A" q" w' m& ]

/ C& G5 k/ g- B" Y7 SI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
; b( I! l, Z% o# s+ f- 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.
1 M5 T( b3 J* y8 H* W# s( T- Scott Adams) F( r* C9 T& r0 _# q; d* k
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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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% t& x+ ~5 Z1 i% _/ u7 a. GIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.: i: i" X% y  m. D
- Bradley's Bromide3 C/ N. v3 B: k/ ^' U/ l
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.- v" ?1 d& z  y2 [" V
- 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.
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" n) T- o( T4 R4 S9 iThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
8 J! Q+ l5 F) w& N) N- Jeremy S. Anderson8 @4 }7 s) Q- A# v( D

. @, n6 [) ^+ T& kOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man., ?' d: E: U5 L
- Elbert Hubbard* P9 `: {9 B3 S) n8 E
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
! m0 b& x0 n% c' A/ Z& m- David Thornburg
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. g$ H/ i/ H3 y& f+ v6 lThose 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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* @" S5 P( j) [- GSave early, save often.& Z& q' G8 e& u5 w: d& m
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word% h7 B: K9 a9 X- m2 m5 Z
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Build early and build often.
2 }3 [# i: V$ Z1 e% d. z- Proprietary developer adage$ J3 @( d' C* ^+ l
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Release early and release often.; T6 N/ p$ B  u) \6 r: B: _# k
- Open source developer adage
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" n. Y) s+ [; u" G* w# [1 EWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
7 X* a$ K4 w9 E4 B- Carl Sagan" Q: }" Y2 ^8 z. 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.5 V# J/ q2 C. b
- Anonymous0 ^( e9 H  u/ b. m$ S- D

+ |& G. V* r$ M% U1 n1 d: ?There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.! {; G, C. j, V6 |
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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& `/ a" \9 S3 U3 j1 K2 T- B* n. S% \) OThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.& j; k, {' z: G+ N* I1 w
- Porterfield
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. @8 Z, s; H: F% T" cEverything that can be invented has been invented.* U7 c& A! p; y  {1 X9 F
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899+ Q, s7 N: h' i5 U( o

! L# |1 {0 f( n+ BGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT- D6 K8 R# B3 X+ D- c9 o
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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3 s! V  w7 ~: gAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
2 L8 `; x3 s" G/ ~/ y- e- Arthur C. Clarke
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$ z5 B. @3 t) a6 [Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.* e1 W+ w* s4 t- T  z
- Gregory Benford# S$ N7 K7 a6 Y8 T' D

) k- Q: a& g8 I9 l) G1 @3 _Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.& R% t4 K, O4 B6 m' p# a
- Anonymous" y* P2 s8 P& f* B- r# \4 Y

4 B0 ~8 o( C% k* ~$ [A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.4 _( ]! s0 P- P5 `; N8 L
- Alan J. Perlis
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, b$ o4 d2 E6 p/ R! gI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: N# t/ {( X/ t1 F
- Thomas Edison* I, V% p$ G, Q. [
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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.8 l$ V, Z% R1 K) {( G% O
- 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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" r. Q3 s4 G2 q" C; ]2 s% `8 rThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.0 [' Q* ]& I- Z! p, f8 }
- Senator Bob Dole
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2 u$ O. b- A9 D  E7 KComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
" `/ @, j2 P- y3 c( r& j; {6 E& A- Popular Mechanics, 19494 b* n2 F8 p2 e9 h, t

5 _$ j* |; ~/ W1 [ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it./ M  x. c$ r6 u: U; f* n$ K
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy& ]$ {: Y: g' t; t: h2 s7 U- c+ F

' q$ K# j! Y7 |! WTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.  ^5 P2 C4 X& v5 ^" z. ?* ]2 D5 P
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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! I) G- z, v# }2 d1 E) b3 rAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive., i" F/ K" |1 I. ~- X+ m
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
# O3 Z2 d) K9 ]+ I4 @# W2 l- Al Gore on Y2K' G( b* L) e8 I3 _$ G: L% Q4 g

) n& \* s9 A; z7 z2 u) H# o! }: JThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.' l; I+ k7 ^: M5 W2 K2 g
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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) X+ t' s" E. jThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.4 i3 f, P+ R2 ~5 _
- Linus Torvalds- V8 Z8 n7 H( i9 a0 ^1 E8 X% ?

) |: j8 f& R9 _2 u3 {8 p" JTo 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.
! G  ?9 T: _. h# R% B- Linus Torvalds
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8 f+ E& R* [/ {" U9 t) iWindows is just DOS in drag.
+ q, D" v4 o6 \1 v- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
* y, l& a8 k7 F$ V1 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.
8 v- j+ H6 O2 \$ H1 B- Thomas Edison
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; \( f8 I. w( I' pEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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