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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.! f. Q' w3 L# e+ T1 h
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum4 t2 n) c1 |% q

/ ?. V! E# {8 j! j6 s6 @9 h- UWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?+ p( y, X6 J$ C/ Y
- T.S. Elliot7 }, D* X9 e: S

2 Z( S( L8 s! D+ o9 h7 J6 a640K ought to be enough for anybody.
# D4 G  |6 @" v8 ]8 x, c- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19813 w4 R- F. q/ Y5 e0 A  }" Y/ h
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
; m# ?* B, J$ U3 T- 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./ W# {9 n5 A6 q) Y# N- D- c
- George Pompidou& V, D) [$ L! _- E+ [) f# I

8 j& W% g" K: h" k6 U+ Q" i5 eTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.- Q1 e0 M' ]2 _1 ?' @$ h' @" I
- Anonymous; K5 }) g5 j/ ?9 {
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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.. J8 e; v2 U0 p6 [
- Anonymous6 x& F0 q9 r$ }6 l) s+ Q  i
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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.
- O/ Z! m0 v8 O  ?! U- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.# K. \* a! s. e( Y; f
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.. @, P: X1 M$ f9 O2 o
- 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.
; W: W: @- Z3 B- Scott Adams
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2 }, ?; `( W, \3 r) N) d. \In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
& d6 [9 h2 E4 x4 D; E* }* ]1 _8 H- Anonymous
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! v$ e+ u3 m3 y. I! JIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.6 \% {6 D# v/ M& F3 S. J
- Bradley's Bromide; n+ K) t$ I& ]" I% s$ G: J

, y# E0 }4 d" p0 q0 M. F2 }The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
/ z1 c! l6 l6 `: R. ]' N( v  ?- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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1 U; i% N. o3 S0 o8 h' U' g% g" b. }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.& ]1 E4 X% Z( ]7 b
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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4 L4 a( |, \& v9 Y! T5 DOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
  Q4 N* y  [) i  Q+ e/ B8 N; z- Elbert Hubbard
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  g9 E! |4 T1 q6 I' rAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.% w; E$ w& g8 u5 z/ f
- David Thornburg
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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.7 S8 ]# }- i3 |* v# F% e7 D
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.8 k5 g* Z% V% v  _5 ]
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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2 y0 V  M0 i& q. y- VBuild early and build often.2 v0 N0 W1 a+ P, U# i
- Proprietary developer adage( \& Y. S2 |0 ]/ B3 E
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Release early and release often.
$ K0 V$ [7 `# i& D- Open source developer adage2 z4 l5 u# s8 g7 Z4 I4 M
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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.% w0 ^# N1 d- U% r- n
- Carl Sagan/ B$ v( H( \, W: w

. C) ^5 f; U) r% ]& f  zIf 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.
' w8 ]( ~, H) L- Anonymous
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$ w7 O% }  N# {6 _: g/ n+ fThere 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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& x7 w  |+ g5 u# J4 g: MThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.: h& S2 W( n  @9 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.) Y6 W" A! M4 v4 ~& C. ?
- Porterfield2 k2 Q. l4 W1 X9 J. E6 G
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
: [1 Y* L6 C% \: `- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18990 l7 N( F' r4 d' U

/ {$ w+ n( H  O* I, e& `6 y3 JGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
) [3 b, q0 E2 @# H' r* u- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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/ v7 O  |5 G2 J. \$ `! M; GAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
$ t' z" k4 R2 l9 V9 B# C4 i2 Y- Arthur C. Clarke: q# G: c4 X# H6 l) X. K

6 `6 e& U' U# r  A+ `" l3 t9 VAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
1 `4 v) E+ Q% U- Gregory Benford+ e: h  T0 d" ]+ A( \  O
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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7 k7 K1 J* R6 Y: S' C9 G; ^A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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5 h( h  B9 J" h9 M- p$ e6 OI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
2 c8 a$ |, |! a' d; l( c0 @- D- Thomas Edison, R5 l$ g, G: y4 c' T
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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.7 X  ?6 p# c% y! h" M' {
- 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+ u& ?! u# w! L, E1 K
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.9 Y. w. N) `' U/ l8 u9 s0 W: n
- Senator Bob Dole0 p# {" C+ ?( n8 L( f

8 t$ E1 m* n6 \9 I5 g) Z. UComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.9 D  i, i" }' j) M5 f( o
- Popular Mechanics, 1949+ {( P7 [8 j* ~2 P0 Y& R# h
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
! V) r5 N8 B* f! @9 ]- 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.3 E% c9 O4 B$ i% p4 q
- Andrew Heller, IBM0 `5 J! M$ R( A9 K4 t$ O

; _8 q5 c. `# P# ZAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive." w7 C( P& h, A6 v
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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* Q/ Y, V4 @9 THow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?+ ?8 I) P) Q* Q2 @* o
- Al Gore on Y2K& o; w  D- D( Q$ I  y
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
& R8 j" X0 L0 _5 B5 n, W- Sydney Brenner in 1927( I/ {# c7 M6 n3 ]/ g7 e4 c

. S2 d9 Y7 k& Z1 T8 g: c, w& ~9 c, HThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.- B# s: @# |- S+ d" K- {8 X
- 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.
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. O/ w5 X, {5 x1 y- x: rWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.0 F& h) u, N) F8 P6 F1 K3 R
- 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.
( ]/ q- d3 g3 y; |9 h. ]- H( v9 V- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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