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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 s8 y: T8 @3 D0 g& _1 r* e2 ]
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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6 A. _6 V4 ?3 {' [) ?3 l% ]! A& _Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?: C  Y  g# R& f7 q( C2 _  v- l5 P, g& p
- T.S. Elliot
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9 r3 d7 H( c8 D& I* G: w) d640K ought to be enough for anybody.& j$ y( [" w/ U, z) {2 i! i( I
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19812 H# r: a8 A0 R

, L3 b* I# `# T0 @0 M5 lThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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8 U+ E8 b  \; `" p$ e+ b# s  XThere 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 x, `- t- p: Z0 A
- George Pompidou
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1 f4 ?: y$ n' I0 l! ?) [- h) K7 TTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.# {0 w' x, ~8 z; D1 O+ j
- Anonymous' w* t- c  |2 c/ i. O2 E4 M' y, m

- Y0 Z/ b) l: a" a" g( L! p& c! C$ L. vFor 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.
. `+ E# h9 s2 l* L- Andy Rooney. K4 @& P1 ]2 D# N4 R2 k& _9 {
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
0 \  r# ~9 ?8 v; w6 I- Richard Power; P! C! k) N* |) Y
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.8 J: v! e( x9 S! c& Q: B9 }
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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; i: O3 u# y& RIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.4 ?1 z( g( m, ^
- Scott Adams8 o! y( z; I' B' R/ v3 O% Z

2 s: b4 t  T! ^. x" r9 \: ]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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" Q! n9 y3 x) j. o. j/ y! H! lIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
" `/ ^  g" S8 Q" n& f$ S- Anonymous
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$ m3 u0 u& Y! H) z& RThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
  |% [$ J0 ?# C- Jeremy S. Anderson$ E8 j+ {4 V) o4 K! W3 m

9 y; C: f2 a/ GOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
+ B) k# D( X  h5 q4 a- Elbert Hubbard
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: [. S/ }) d6 t9 ~) v. M2 qAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.1 C: J" ~! n  j1 }2 }6 T  d
- 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.
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Save early, save often.: x( g/ C/ ?/ m# e
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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/ u# @' k0 o' p& iBuild early and build often.
0 n  |  z( `# X, @( @* G# Z- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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( h" H' l0 C, s2 W0 k' ]We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
7 d. Z! i2 q* ~- Carl Sagan, A' y, u2 j* Z% n
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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.* \" d9 U8 a* O5 q( @% V4 a% F
- Anonymous
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5 y* o$ r& w# r" h2 J: B) qThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.5 |8 Y0 e  `3 ~; j
- Margaret Thatcher, c* H" a* G, }$ D7 }' \+ ]

5 H7 _1 n. L) EThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
4 G# G: t& l- {  C5 P* o- Jerry Olson
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9 x5 T2 X7 j( R6 g1 g) U! TThe 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.; ^) J9 l9 u$ j& ]- v8 N' ?( w/ ]
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899! P$ F' p9 n' T0 j% ~; m* s

4 Q$ G- H( N( d" d2 ~# WGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
: d+ j6 I1 |* z3 @/ y4 |# `- d. v- Fairchild Research and Development, 19696 F3 d' y) y$ a8 x7 v
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
# q. m) E* O* W& X6 q- Arthur C. Clarke
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8 y, b+ Z" i4 r8 `6 R/ x. X3 ^% pAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.9 k* L/ B! z) K/ }0 g% T' A
- Gregory Benford3 o( l  b( a* @5 o. A6 k! k
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.& F) J2 q0 V5 v, C$ C
- Alan J. Perlis
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0 h7 p6 a3 {! h: C) E6 S$ `I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." D( G% w1 M- w2 [+ d) a9 v
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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.
3 H  ]1 |- {- ^" \6 J& X1 v. y- 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.! L& |' ~5 _5 C4 K. Y" @+ a
- Senator Bob Dole
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) K3 S% M2 @& N' Z% ZComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.( y- F" Y/ v4 H  r
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
3 u% U  w+ n. R1 S- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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* \5 z  o. c% l8 _3 i) ZTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes., S" P) C5 a: B6 W2 R1 |
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
9 t1 b" `& d  H5 [- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos4 e: x/ g  o& T4 f: `; k
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.( J8 e- t# O- @8 }. t& _0 ~! B* W9 t
- Sydney Brenner in 1927/ ?& I. D0 n$ H

  A! g: J7 F: o6 M; ~The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.9 t# G/ J4 V' d8 v7 z
- Linus Torvalds- ^8 @' l4 N3 I

9 j2 T+ l- J$ }. G  |- x9 |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.% F3 B2 L, k$ @: u" A% q
- Linus Torvalds, X% _; o! q! d* c
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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; w7 L. t/ m) ^! H* }9 T& q. sThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
( M3 n  Q8 m7 x' x  l" w- 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.
; O6 W6 w2 a& ^6 M) l- Thomas Edison
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$ }( g- m# s5 }9 u9 {% f! |9 P9 qEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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