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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.' T' B. o' f/ l- O; X4 s) t' v
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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- n5 i" x1 W2 A) h! A7 N/ o7 VWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.( G, L8 z. s- R5 g! I
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981% m- L% F4 a' Z; g# ?3 Y: `

4 ~" j, M0 W9 w  K& t, g3 i- oThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
: t3 \2 a: v  X* \- B. F. Skinner8 N6 B9 H/ t$ Q: G& i

, |( d1 L( I  h6 _6 W% A4 DThere 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.9 G& ~/ B$ U# e4 K: ^% x1 A- K
- George Pompidou7 H$ |" T0 O' |1 [
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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.
6 }7 T" H! v% F  s( z1 D7 m- Anonymous
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, v8 c, G# y8 o4 tFor 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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5 j' e8 m! z) b. k9 a. {! H5 f! rComputers 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 Z, Z8 f2 C6 i+ v1 V) O0 y4 Q
- Andy Rooney2 X2 f, a1 d0 i: t" l
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.& M: g! J( z/ t; S
- Richard Power
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  P2 w8 ^+ X# [% J: b. dI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
& I( ^6 {  h3 [. B+ b( H0 t- 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.: |* R9 u4 z7 R' K  T8 D) E
- Scott Adams' J7 T9 R4 x) @

2 q: l* W; ^- ~+ l! U1 N: LIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.- ~/ A, f- s$ E* U2 ~8 y1 C
- Anonymous/ l) ?( x3 ^2 W

8 y; G& V+ E  Q* h4 R2 `% rIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.& b( m4 h' k: }
- Bradley's Bromide/ K! u; }  q8 }7 K

, Z/ F/ i+ {3 aThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.% `5 B1 ?* E' k2 b
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric9 H) t: u& i; A! Z8 \
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
2 v8 L9 x, }" [2 e$ `- Anonymous9 _/ q7 x% R0 J% q0 I8 Z4 R

/ |, r5 }4 ]& GThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
4 P3 o# H  ]3 ^1 |8 j* r- Jeremy S. Anderson5 B  }& @: q$ }' H' W9 J
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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 w6 M" G/ _  Y; m9 s- Elbert Hubbard  {' ~8 h7 h# d0 c
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
8 A. H  _: {! X- 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.
6 w+ s# s' G& Z4 J5 X- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word; a: S" B# H; `( f1 k5 z1 n$ m

. J; L9 n4 v8 m8 @Build early and build often.
/ t$ j! g* ^% N1 g5 B+ \' w# V; b" K- Proprietary developer adage
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8 K( J3 d, f  G0 {& {  \Release early and release often.
7 o1 P' {5 U# V' L8 ]0 `: A- Open source developer adage
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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.
6 d1 n& i+ b  g- Carl Sagan
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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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* D- X/ V$ {8 |+ qThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.; T1 C5 |1 O+ L% \0 b
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.. k* [3 J  ^8 Q' ^% b; W; K- O
- Jerry Olson
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0 j" q4 `' ^" n+ U& g7 P3 c+ MThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
: s) O; R1 m; u/ ]- Porterfield
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4 g9 ^7 x% q. s) BEverything that can be invented has been invented.7 Z- s$ @0 u  e& m, L; Z
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18991 S$ A, D$ ]' R  s, \9 y

' u; _3 W. T5 s1 qGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
0 E  D' \6 f$ \- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969  p7 W: @! o" h3 _! q

8 a! n6 E) ~( t$ |# C! m2 P  |' ?Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.! h( U  W+ O6 U8 s& m; V
- Arthur C. Clarke
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8 O5 c$ G9 v. Q. o! CNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.4 r  H' ?; H" Y5 Q4 C  i
- Anonymous
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4 q  I, I1 l& vA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.2 J3 S" A% Z9 W2 ]5 N0 d
- Alan J. Perlis  u5 b' Z! x" A9 v/ W  c, Z

% I# z9 W; ^+ vI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: ~! c& n! a8 W! @- Thomas Edison- j+ Z: f: X. K7 R' i

; h6 O* L: G- f+ hGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
# G3 R1 P. j  Q: m3 h4 @* ?# M# H- 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.$ i& ^" k8 j8 ?7 A
- Senator Bob Dole, S. u. T9 d  o& z" u* H' T

% Q* F, Z( U! B% D7 p* FComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
( B' g5 I3 n7 Q- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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: r# L; t+ |6 i7 U+ s% `8 { From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.7 N4 g& M$ c. b* i1 ~
- 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.
/ D/ L6 l% _1 B( M7 L# o+ y  ]% o- Andrew Heller, IBM" d$ ^2 ?" F1 x$ J4 @1 ?
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.$ _9 l- `7 ]+ `3 K! h% s4 }6 O* V
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos: W1 p; m: E& q5 u! m
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
* X4 U. o0 ^1 E- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.9 n( L/ o1 E0 j8 w3 h. X: p
- Sydney Brenner in 1927; F4 `( o8 T' }/ e% S

4 F  `5 D! M" k$ B/ v  `The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." `; V' S8 R& f$ o
- 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.( y2 g" _7 F( h* ]7 M
- Linus Torvalds
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% L3 k/ E7 J" p' sWindows is just DOS in drag.( \  Y: j/ g" o$ j- \: r3 c" m
- Anonymous
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7 d) A5 \' j8 C8 Y1 x* eThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
" R& ~; \% h8 l' V8 @- 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.. s3 s2 L4 b' x# m, R! _
- Thomas Edison+ N5 J6 y' J' V

0 e! l/ e$ ^/ E! s; OEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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