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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.$ [1 o! k( f* E8 Q
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
1 m, i7 c/ S; H4 f% g/ n% r- T.S. Elliot
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- b( U* j2 F4 G3 {640K ought to be enough for anybody.
7 K8 k8 W5 [9 S( I+ f- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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# X: t& n8 V- g) z; N- C2 E5 w  iThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.6 x1 r* r# G6 E% y' L% v
- B. F. Skinner% q1 T0 m6 k* k& a

& D* c) f+ o% f% J( w+ fThere 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." f0 d& O, |6 L6 h9 M1 _
- George Pompidou
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1 H  C5 y* a% h3 K9 `$ Y  r: `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.1 p" c/ H" s- x; E
- Anonymous' N- y% B7 O, v. }
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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.
7 N3 Z( E2 n! ?- 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.
2 T9 E3 b& K/ i1 @5 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.4 r$ h) I; p! n6 N& p
- Richard Power' c% S1 |, @# ?; }/ y
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.4 b% R  U* d7 h/ v' U6 \
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943+ ~+ i% l" b+ X( c6 W2 Y" d$ p
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done./ T) x* |6 D" {. y% \& T8 M0 S, N
- Scott Adams& Z! s4 n" y  h: {4 @
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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.1 {* E) g6 Y3 {% {1 I
- Anonymous
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  W; A# c# m% Z6 |+ \2 cIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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$ z& F- l1 }/ Z+ k+ `* y: XThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
& ?; `. c/ H" o1 Y* a- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric! g8 X2 E. J+ @/ e# _; v& ^

! F$ D, Z1 M0 b, \At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.# S1 M' y/ T6 P8 A: q: C) V
- 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.4 H, ^: l* [6 S; G
- Jeremy S. Anderson# c( L- o; N2 z5 Z
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.! A- r( k% k6 X+ |8 n9 P; s/ ~$ P; r
- Elbert Hubbard/ e) |/ M6 I5 P! G: U
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be., _9 L( y& K: r. _; L1 z
- David Thornburg: b% G' e+ _( e3 S/ d% j+ }
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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.
) V0 @8 [1 D9 W- Anonymous
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; e8 e8 Z8 j* ~6 [" O) KSave early, save often.
/ ^# L2 S9 \4 o- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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1 Y* c% @3 b; V' r( @Build early and build often.
$ N( Q7 u  G* Z' |- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.+ ~& p. u' @% J' d) _
- Open source developer adage
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* _( d6 a$ W5 e8 PWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
5 j# J5 l/ A8 [& q- Carl Sagan/ _( l: |; C5 Q$ C; C! S

& Z3 B5 u" a& ^, k2 p# vIf 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.- ^: f1 Z8 R: g- j! m9 _3 ~5 B
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" k, J( {% Q+ hThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
% S# o, N% e' }7 _3 [7 l" M- w- Margaret Thatcher3 ^0 T( L4 V, t7 c- j7 p, g; o
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.$ F% {, _* r/ W8 T' |8 c
- 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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
* f( g% [) h) r- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899+ G6 F+ [3 d% f& V3 S  o
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT) M* v3 O- M2 |
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
. [; ?+ J% U7 I- Arthur C. Clarke' y3 Z: ?  |0 D3 d1 {0 X& k

2 q' l6 b4 e  L3 \5 UAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.8 x3 h1 P! _8 }) Y* ?
- Gregory Benford8 f1 o( q; r/ _# b4 `8 L' N

3 o  n  i# H  K6 ]! S! [Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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6 ]- c& W/ w! [, Z9 oA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.4 J7 w& d+ R! J, l; ^' A
- Alan J. Perlis7 {9 |2 I  X% M2 I1 h5 F" s

$ P/ ~3 f" P6 O0 LI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.0 Q- ~4 F* n: k' f1 E5 H
- Thomas Edison
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2 D- W. T" M7 t& w7 `Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
3 L; Z" S9 K9 n9 ?( W; a4 o- 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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0 i7 i* |0 P) k( a8 eThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Z: K' J: s- u8 D/ n. B+ H- Senator Bob Dole
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/ S7 q& n8 b' _/ y! v4 D3 |Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.8 }4 ?$ s: V+ \9 N. y
- Popular Mechanics, 1949, L" \( D3 O- B5 W- @  ^7 N  X
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
) U9 h+ ?3 `* R% \, o- 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.* v0 m# E; ^' G( T& L8 ~
- Andrew Heller, IBM; K3 A$ h4 R9 ?1 @8 S0 P6 {
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.' ]8 A4 Z+ b2 _: Q) V0 G
- 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?! z% X& F+ q$ |/ Z1 C  x1 r& s
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
1 p: h8 |; t) L- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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. |3 W  A  i9 h" pThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
7 R! K8 D7 U! [. l7 ]. [. e- Linus Torvalds; z) H! V, D) |3 W) Q1 b
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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.
9 D+ U7 o" d# s" L+ f7 T- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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: \' a8 b9 V8 \There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
% G5 z& Q) d! y- 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 i" j0 E5 ^: I6 P! a- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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