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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.
! N& X" Q  U7 d* y% _- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
7 U3 ?- p* h* [, v5 H, i; L- T.S. Elliot( e$ j/ n7 h8 _* ^
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.: p3 ^" L9 E; G1 q
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19811 y8 f% ^+ q4 ]+ }
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.+ u  x1 }1 U( ~7 _. j0 K7 ^
- B. F. Skinner! E4 P5 ~  a+ Q0 \& |: X+ \

. c: ^3 A& b4 A- G. `! V% M3 BThere 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.
. f# E9 O4 N: M' u# b6 }- George Pompidou
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1 ]' Q9 t: J6 J/ h& M6 p# XTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.  F- d# p' J) r: r3 s7 t' B( V( F, A
- Anonymous+ h7 s; j0 q% t! M$ S, 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.3 z; I1 @% r5 `+ W4 `( Y( a+ k+ g
- Anonymous
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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.& `" V! u& Q9 A6 W2 p9 I7 y; Z5 Z
- Andy Rooney* f9 J2 H; K$ g, y: P' k# P

) B: o; r* X9 z; \In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
9 Z* x$ Q6 j7 j- Richard Power
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2 t6 P9 Y8 h& C, x- {1 `0 a3 O# r. YI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.3 d- \5 o- K( ~9 S! l% o4 m! W9 S
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943- Q! R  v6 c% z( u, p+ U& I
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.; p' X) q& k% `8 ?4 c6 x2 n; k" ^$ `
- 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 N' _- F8 L9 |: M- N: W4 \# k
- Anonymous' d. X+ g" T- R; e3 N4 h

  F6 b7 h! l4 H; H  q0 \If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.7 E! H+ W; i$ ?4 H3 i
- Bradley's Bromide: e6 p$ _9 W2 O$ ^: k6 U
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
4 A; E9 @  m, x4 c! d& b/ R* e0 z5 _- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric  @" q# ~( z% Q: m+ ]3 o
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
; H$ ~: m" o- ?  b- Anonymous
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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.
" {" ?! t5 G- E7 s) i, F- Jeremy S. Anderson
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' G3 p  d8 l/ n) {One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man./ }2 y: N6 `% h* V
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.1 }2 J- ~) |: }) U3 \2 B6 b; T$ }
- David Thornburg3 G3 P* @- L2 F. Z- }
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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.% O5 Y) w* f( v- E  k# _$ j3 L
- Anonymous  \1 L6 v# N9 I6 H

" f9 g! A8 d. V2 K% \3 aSave early, save often.
) B* d$ x/ U- K3 E( f- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word( M0 o% ]# [; n2 p

" g% z- B3 A8 [# nBuild early and build often.
5 F" R) ~# z' w3 f. w. O- Proprietary developer adage9 Z* k( ^% E; _7 J6 u& l' s. o/ H$ D
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Release early and release often.
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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.
4 H+ H& W. [2 w2 N  q, z. \- Carl Sagan4 V# r! Y, X) C* Z
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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.
. |7 Q9 b4 |( N: _& s% E9 ]- 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.
( u" V" `- P6 F% Z8 N- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
/ y7 k- M3 Y. X; B( ]+ `0 l! p- 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.
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; L# M. s4 t2 XEverything that can be invented has been invented.+ H9 U# K9 P+ f$ {5 F/ X
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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; C( l4 Q) X- [6 e& a/ A2 lGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
1 M8 f# M  s3 }7 G% D- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
1 a: Q, w5 Z5 B2 ~( t- Arthur C. Clarke
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& U: T- {1 P9 ]% T+ x4 x3 \Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
4 e1 P+ D4 \/ o- Gregory Benford8 q4 k0 Z( i# a" @! k( Y

0 x7 p/ `" _. w$ dNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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( T! ~+ |4 U8 j, l( \0 m8 @* `A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.5 a5 H3 J$ u. i
- Alan J. Perlis
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- Thomas Edison9 M; ]6 [1 W& T2 Y7 Y
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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.
! X0 M+ z' c+ c- 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! E1 t5 p9 @  q8 E4 w9 i4 v% B' t
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.8 a0 k0 @9 T0 \* n' G9 D6 {& b
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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; W6 z8 h' J3 P8 }( \ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.  w" s& h7 ]  R0 M& L8 s
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
. D4 ^- A$ V& \, Q- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.* X+ V6 }8 U- Y% V$ v
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos* @2 e# s0 j+ k
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?0 C3 m( w, h. [3 p; i5 h
- Al Gore on Y2K
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# n: W0 L5 C# l0 b8 C: Z5 E8 V& mThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.8 ]. I1 N+ a7 d3 u
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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; q& G3 g" S- B2 g/ rThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.; K  r4 ^" E0 A1 a
- 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./ Q4 o7 r9 b+ D! m8 _2 D* s  f- M
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5 w+ C9 |- o) b+ jWindows is just DOS in drag.
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- j! @& O2 v8 x: NThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
0 ^) h: l' S4 a, ^- 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$ k% _2 t4 d9 f* Z
- Thomas Edison+ K8 x! _! _0 D# e0 z% v) d9 A
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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