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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.
, _/ l' u" V) _$ d  o- Andrew S. Tannenbaum6 z3 u% G3 ]6 Z
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?0 _; C& }8 `! u: Y
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) B0 c; ]4 _! L" I# m% V# [640K ought to be enough for anybody.- W. @" k; c, K. F2 x3 v+ Y
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981* T8 k7 r, t+ O  ~' e( b0 f

; F4 e* P  k9 Q) t- w8 P+ VThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
& l& F! ?0 j( ^- p. K3 q" J5 W- B. F. Skinner
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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.
/ N9 J" v  i& i- George Pompidou2 E" h5 W7 ?3 l" Q5 Y- T

+ U) ~) S: e/ b9 u, CTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.# Z5 P' l4 l8 {# T: C- a) H
- Anonymous
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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.9 v( |! @; x9 K
- Anonymous5 U* F3 P9 P# Z4 H8 S8 @$ X

% j% y1 ]' j! dComputers 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$ c% P$ r; U9 \1 o- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
. c7 P# V8 C4 A2 U- Richard Power! I" l2 Y. n7 v5 w( _! k0 y

/ H( g) e2 k8 E( s. mI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
! E4 f; S3 Z+ R$ Z$ f7 i. \- 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.3 J# \2 l5 f% B
- Scott Adams
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7 w6 M. _: c" O$ w$ n4 XIn 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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; O9 V' Y7 b0 P- ?" }4 N4 B9 ^; \If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.. y9 d0 \$ u5 w) c+ z- y
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 d* T+ Q: A! V6 R1 o- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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5 s, D/ K. O2 p) n- a2 _At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
1 B: X8 D' K4 y/ q- Anonymous
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# @* _! Z! p' x6 j( ~There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.# E$ q8 p0 [  ]% o. J( w- I
- 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.& ^  G2 P( D% b5 O; |. o0 z6 y- b
- Elbert Hubbard
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/ r- j- E* k  u9 H* l* X+ W. R/ vAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.: t1 v1 B9 N% O, J2 L
- David Thornburg9 y* ~2 T' m- c# {4 D" b' b

; O. _+ d& G/ E; ]( Q' 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.8 M+ C7 J) v- t1 q- i
- Anonymous
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: ^% f, h7 `/ WSave early, save often.) K# r1 f: a. Y! Q2 a
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word3 M# W5 A6 x  g! B+ I
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Build early and build often.! f) x& W" U- G  t! N7 `, K$ g
- Proprietary developer adage
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- Open source developer adage
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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.
3 y) t! ]) v$ g. Y0 p7 i3 k- Carl Sagan; T  _  ^7 j5 [# }5 z1 d

& u' ?; _3 M% `' q, J& bIf 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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.  X4 E: g  {9 T: H) S( w( i: |
- Margaret Thatcher7 }0 T& U6 R% L0 v1 c! g6 R; B
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon., h) e  R" i; ^' ~* n# \) X) F+ ?
- Jerry Olson; n7 n8 X: D" B
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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.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.8 ?! x* S  P8 g
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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5 N8 G0 R% Y% i2 r% L+ @% y: XGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT, {# }9 V. D& q7 [2 w, o5 U
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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; l8 `5 ^. W4 E  qAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.! \1 @3 [3 F# |- S
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.7 x# N6 p0 y: o; p9 {
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( S1 f4 `4 R- U" oA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.$ @6 j2 @: Y0 i# g, o" k, g
- Alan J. Perlis0 h% V. f& M2 ~9 b

! H4 w# `: l) L! xI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 n: l7 b7 S5 }) c+ w- Thomas Edison
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  o5 J2 ?" ^) R2 t8 x* AGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.* g; h& X  l/ W3 }& W7 s
- 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. w0 k& ~) Y1 i9 {. D2 q
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.3 a; a! \. G' A7 y: K6 A2 R
- 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.# P5 ]# K9 k4 v) X1 D% I8 }6 E
- Popular Mechanics, 1949- ]% N' C+ q, r
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.6 f$ }2 D/ W1 |6 n" K" U" b
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy6 I) K. }. t+ D% F; p
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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.9 n+ a2 \; C( I  ]
- 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?
# k. }0 L9 C& `6 d- L7 z- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.6 ^: U& \% J5 f; W1 Y$ U  ^1 j2 X
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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( b, F4 H$ Z8 X4 D/ G" OThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.* n( M! F: I# W1 B' P& ]
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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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.( m+ ^2 n) {5 u" f; U3 A
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
) Q3 L6 v! p* w. f( [- 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 q3 L1 M* k; Y6 X
- Thomas Edison
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& ^* M% Q& a8 ^Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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