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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 m4 ^) }3 H" n  V- `
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum; V3 I3 q+ `; T7 ~/ |
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?, R9 ]  |' C8 |# @. h/ W
- T.S. Elliot) ^1 X: i- \0 \0 @( ~, V3 M

( N2 D* M' f4 K* Y8 x' r640K ought to be enough for anybody.
1 |! q" A3 z' y  S" l6 }. o: K- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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4 V6 ~) D+ f' s0 A! O! YThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
; u( q7 c: T1 T# ?  r- B. F. Skinner7 ]1 P2 s/ }% o" A' h
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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.$ ~( ~7 P$ A3 h3 F4 m9 |! Q9 B
- 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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9 D; @+ s8 J( r; H# ^* V/ r* |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.4 J, v. I- @: k$ {" f
- Anonymous( @/ d7 S. _! G1 y

4 N, P1 M5 ~- D4 g& N* v, q6 AComputers 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.1 b6 H2 X" X8 i7 \  C' Y
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
8 x$ `& E1 Y' e. R- Richard Power
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0 f3 ?/ l2 U# r) q8 {/ y) b  v( `I think there is a world market for maybe five computers./ U" H$ ?1 b, |& ?6 G0 v
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943: p# w' [2 X4 g' Q$ |6 R9 o0 C' o
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.3 F5 i  E( ?- O2 h
- Scott Adams
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- \0 e; z+ w: }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/ p  B+ |7 ~/ k
- Anonymous
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. E; V& H1 B) ~  {4 P! |9 oIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.5 b5 i8 q. e2 y, K
- Bradley's Bromide9 i' g( j0 Z; \

% j: _. z, i# E( ^& ^The Internet is the Viagra of big business.  w& l) ]4 @4 O& A
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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  r. c% k  k: k7 Z& z# X. R4 XAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
7 Q7 {3 h4 ^" ~" p1 I- D. }- Anonymous
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9 M/ r! H' p% b& i' k; UThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.2 c# D( ]* e( X+ a' j+ o) {
- Jeremy S. Anderson5 d' A4 F+ Z+ s' [3 N+ w
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.4 R  x- ?8 C* X1 S# \' \# m6 z' O/ `
- Elbert Hubbard
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3 j+ O, M2 [" D2 f+ Q9 y9 }Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.0 N8 g) U* m, F' G5 S5 T4 V
- David Thornburg
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2 r0 x( p' [9 I* HThose 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.1 c" H) M3 N/ T! L$ A
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Save early, save often.7 ?, k; m( p- i# ^! C
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word/ F# }& I4 \& \, L% D3 ^

4 z8 Q+ {7 a$ w9 ^* B3 ]Build early and build often.
% F- L3 t4 f2 [- p- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.% ^8 }3 C! A: f; K4 J5 l% }
- Open source developer adage
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0 \% J% N7 }( v) J" rWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.% @! v8 F( @$ j: }4 `4 b
- Carl Sagan/ z; r. e9 q3 y* E

& J4 G3 `! p: [5 g; q8 _, mIf 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.
" {( z7 j8 G  I- Margaret Thatcher
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  c* k9 ^" X" z4 n) F* Q; tThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
  r/ w+ g" j. o' P+ A& K; g- 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.6 d* w  x7 `& U( O
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! }" V" _5 g( O" u7 c, D2 iEverything that can be invented has been invented.
9 R5 J. H; ^/ o2 r/ ?/ W+ I- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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' s, z4 o# A$ Q- v+ m6 I6 R3 E1 q5 b" yGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT' Q7 l0 p2 k+ \2 ?) y
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
* z! v! \8 ?  }$ L7 c+ P- Arthur C. Clarke3 h; E' _' W/ \) e+ S/ H$ H( l
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
) F  d8 z3 A2 a- b- Gregory Benford4 u* l9 w3 G0 j$ q! C% u8 z+ B7 E8 ]
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.6 f2 Q. h* l* R( J4 E( ]/ {
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." p2 y; F. I, @8 Y7 Y
- Alan J. Perlis
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) I, }6 n+ }5 D3 T: [6 M+ jI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
0 U' m  O; R4 a- b3 a- Thomas Edison# O) e" m" ^! }2 _7 o
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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.
* _; M' [" u$ Y5 {- 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.! n% w6 {+ n* j$ K7 I, T* b5 y
- Senator Bob Dole
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$ K$ j: K- Q6 b- [6 a4 K" V+ @/ T3 c2 LComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.7 ^' I' z  |  n3 w  H
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.: w8 y1 h- y, l2 ^
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy1 y2 M. L' ]" N* B! w. O
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
; y* b8 i. r% y) }: K* {4 W- Andrew Heller, IBM
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2 U+ v; o6 P5 \: PAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.1 J9 A$ A9 `+ @6 V5 N  l/ ]* h
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos# G; N2 r) Q) w- P9 Y  ]
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
+ A. n" a6 q9 t* \- Al Gore on Y2K
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- j/ q$ F" [) CThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.: l/ y3 b# P2 u8 N
- Sydney Brenner in 1927/ Q% ~& m2 u8 h$ l' b, v# g8 N! G

9 h. |1 p- d' y6 j. p. \The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.  a# h2 t& N9 A. p& R8 _9 N
- Linus Torvalds; L4 N% ~: F  G* p; ]

# n- S3 z2 e& @6 Q3 k0 {' OTo 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.: `' @0 }. n% K. d# q. X
- Linus Torvalds
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. {4 Z4 }, [5 H( j2 }6 @* x: oWindows is just DOS in drag.
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% U( P4 h# H) W3 m1 l9 D1 ]- A1 sThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.5 n* [% y! [" S
- 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.; A" s( J! ?0 X( e% B/ v$ T
- Thomas Edison9 z  k! n$ }; s/ p$ W

. r. [! L$ u9 q1 ^. y' o$ ~Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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