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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 Q, V% p- p- I! b+ y7 g
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum* P0 I( c; t; [) ^
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?7 G, H$ m/ h5 m
- T.S. Elliot
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! j7 S0 M& I* N$ k, j! H640K ought to be enough for anybody.
# _+ N! v3 ~! W/ }$ D% O" B- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981. |3 G2 E$ s! R* j1 @
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.3 K! G" x( C) U/ Z" Y
- B. F. Skinner( P: S. V( B6 b6 e1 T3 A
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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.2 k( L* f0 W9 b: S8 {) ~) S2 G3 R
- George Pompidou% V; d; v6 l8 F. U3 i3 y% \

0 s* A' z8 _) @" o3 nTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.* X1 e: O$ H1 J2 ]
- 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.
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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.% F: ?8 r$ F* D3 z3 c2 e" |* B
- Andy Rooney( ^+ P/ R& H* n! A: M( }, C, A

, I4 @0 C& T! |" t( t/ i4 vIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
' G' x. S! m) Q+ g) b- Richard Power
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6 p; w$ C$ R; oI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.: d( E( ~. }" d4 c
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943! _* C+ o3 V- U
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
4 i* ?5 D. |0 N5 R9 B2 A- b/ b- Scott Adams: j" d1 J4 F: K5 b( L' X
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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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7 @  Q1 U; J7 X6 jIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
' H5 x* E3 x2 O5 i- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.( P2 w+ w, N# g& Z8 q
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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9 D6 w; n, w5 u' ?8 I$ t& dAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.) j' y& S  m% U! h$ 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.
: C  M  ?# \& Q& J' A! A- M- Jeremy S. Anderson
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# _9 u. D# n. j, WOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
* |: L5 }' S: u' r, g- Elbert Hubbard3 g! {# S8 i. [8 z3 F+ q
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.: N5 C( ~; N& B/ [' |+ o( f' B; U
- 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.1 M; ~. H; _+ ?/ M* E# L0 p' A- W
- Anonymous3 a- [+ E! ]6 j* V1 R

2 w; N- J3 y- u0 ~. jSave early, save often.
7 J1 h1 }7 s  H$ I- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
: _. D/ M; w+ Z) I' [! \3 Q! G- Proprietary developer adage
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! W( |% u7 h2 h; L# [+ N& K, QRelease early and release often.
; g+ ?5 v" ~1 c: D( f, X/ ^- Open source developer adage" \8 o% A! Q! F$ X7 m, R
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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.- U9 M6 B8 S6 w% u- k) p8 b
- Carl Sagan- G1 \$ P5 S/ j3 h, @
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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.
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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.
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! k9 I9 ]8 m- p: l$ A( f; tThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.5 j& D8 ]0 a) e2 c/ V: z4 f
- 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.4 d  c. F; |% e9 E0 y7 n, X
- Porterfield
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; @" K5 {$ f0 o% |1 M% d+ \7 _9 q9 AEverything that can be invented has been invented.
* I! T* V( l: u0 U+ y5 [1 e- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969; l2 @+ M5 g& x0 T) ^8 Z# m& z. l

: U! q% u# O( }% A6 m! q7 L9 CAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.; `; g  w7 ~7 u5 F. I
- Arthur C. Clarke. I/ n/ q: e. w
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced./ n# R! S8 U' I
- Gregory Benford
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, G1 [" H& D6 [, ~8 X$ VNever let a computer know you're in a hurry./ _8 Z2 c9 G) X3 u- Q* ?. V
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.. Z/ G* I! G0 r0 p. n5 H
- Alan J. Perlis
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7 R7 f) }; Q9 f9 T8 r& ~+ x: d" wI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
0 i- s  m$ M8 G+ T8 l4 y- Thomas Edison, S, {" u+ H) M
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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.1 \3 K3 {, F& |) Z
- 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 developed6 ~: D8 [% u" w

/ v+ E. D: W# N' v6 f8 rThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
& m" F& d6 D2 A2 \  j8 q3 W- Senator Bob Dole+ A8 W- J( h( x- [8 N" g! j

0 L1 S% z7 {9 s7 _9 T) k* |Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons., w4 D7 U- p6 J
- Popular Mechanics, 1949+ C, R, d% r; W5 y) }. _, ]
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.( L2 b7 W9 U& r) K4 L
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy  O; g2 x* l7 R# G7 L0 \
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.# [, [# m% Y8 i6 N# ~; D
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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% K# M$ n& N8 h- }: ^9 s$ W, KAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
" P2 P5 @5 q& ~' M- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos) R0 ]6 X/ i- T

0 N8 _: Q, @! DHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
* h* o* o: @7 h6 e5 S2 d/ N- Al Gore on Y2K
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* v7 Y. _! r8 q) p& {The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
% |; q, v& e- Z, d. V9 B- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.2 G. G! G; h& B1 w
- 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.+ a$ D) r5 D- Y, R
- Linus Torvalds
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4 J3 n, s" K& z" _' R$ Q$ W7 AWindows is just DOS in drag.
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! g( D0 ]* v' a# r4 TThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
* I( r3 T4 |0 x- 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.1 m$ i' d5 u' e, o3 P5 G
- Thomas Edison9 d3 J; a3 x) _. h
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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