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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.
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7 Z1 g' B. ^0 X. }/ kWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?" A  d1 l. E3 C: k: F- Y+ `- t
- T.S. Elliot  S4 X: [/ e- [$ h+ S) w6 q/ p

3 A, I' }; m( L; I5 n# A$ M640K ought to be enough for anybody.
7 I5 \. d( ^8 Q- W  |# Y  D7 e- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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; J2 ?/ @! X/ V  b( QThere 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.
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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.- a; j9 Q! e* k+ O% u$ y
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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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6 O# l* y8 X1 m3 E8 TComputers 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.# F2 L; H, u0 p0 {9 c
- Andy Rooney! {7 Y! f; @5 X. G
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.# i9 a( U0 [4 _; ~
- 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.3 U0 V3 E3 B! R, C
- Scott Adams
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  I, Z# e, ~- E$ J" Q# U$ w" z. uIn 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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; c+ w/ [  `8 o# FIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.7 v/ a7 s6 u- A- H% h  J: B7 v% j3 O
- Bradley's Bromide2 H4 G  Q/ @, T1 h3 C, P5 k

, V# p- H# j: _  t/ P4 mThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
/ ~, \1 k. L" ], `* p- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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8 F" b' A1 T  R/ xAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.8 X  h" j) w; ^
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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.
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/ K# x8 n( W. l" y8 QOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- z! Y5 x1 i1 C: U' Z9 D- David Thornburg
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; M4 r0 |0 w/ ^7 ^! CThose 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.5 H8 g# [& e( H
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.  L1 v, S" Z9 h! N" K8 L
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word' ]; J' p" I( Q( E2 g
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Build early and build often.- E5 p( C6 m5 C4 O
- Proprietary developer adage0 F+ N2 Y3 H8 H+ j  S% M9 V
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Release early and release often.! s/ l, }: {$ w% w; n6 \+ e; `$ K8 c
- Open source developer adage9 _2 ^, R4 q1 z+ U
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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.5 ?! S' g" g  i0 q" @0 i
- Carl Sagan3 ~# n' }0 ?8 }, L. k; r2 Q$ ?- t% Y

+ g2 P# H9 v% R! t+ X) 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.
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4 ^0 N/ x! |* s, _  K4 o% H8 yThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.6 L0 `4 x- P8 U& e
- Margaret Thatcher
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  e( e% A) j/ S7 o3 V* T9 C- ~The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon." z$ M  K; r0 j, w% ~1 y
- Jerry Olson/ V- E- {& R- L( o: O" p, ^

* C" A4 M7 T4 ^; _+ I) v9 T2 GThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.' `' t; x3 ?2 x% t4 |4 c
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1 K+ ]* i5 `8 Z3 ]5 [) |$ |0 IEverything that can be invented has been invented.
* P' Z, z  C1 F+ {! j  b4 \- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969. M1 b* p1 a. p' ^0 f0 f

# d- b2 {  J+ @4 E2 f  W& \Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic." e2 m; e$ v8 @
- Arthur C. Clarke
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/ d# H6 d; ^- W9 ZAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced./ t, p( ^' J: {5 h7 H$ p7 X
- Gregory Benford3 q3 `. ], [. v9 }" ], e6 Q+ z
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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.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.* u/ o9 u" U* ?, ?: y: W
- Thomas Edison
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6 d0 z; ?& b! u# HGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.5 B! P: I# G4 |, Y7 d" f# }
- 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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8 V5 @" y3 e9 x1 p! RThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons./ Q1 R. ?( m3 ^! d
- Popular Mechanics, 19493 q+ M9 ~; E% M! g0 b1 L& K7 Q  w

/ @/ u; C; F+ }# F4 C% h8 J From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.. n8 M) f( G* `8 x
- 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.$ \5 s+ x& M: p. F; K& R
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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3 e8 N$ o/ \- OAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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( d0 y* d0 q9 R) U. MHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?5 J1 c; C  Z7 `( u0 K# c
- Al Gore on Y2K
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4 F- H3 F' ^& y: v# Z1 O8 eThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.9 P( y, v. `5 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.) x# U( b$ q9 f3 j
- Linus Torvalds( X1 @. Q1 N' }" N, L6 Z

2 a$ l  F  \' x* i. l+ g; @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./ B) n0 P  _& v' D
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" P; }6 p( S8 a- O, r0 VWindows is just DOS in drag.
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# O' U, w/ T6 m5 |There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.) }9 U0 k( d) e) g4 l
- 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.
4 R5 u0 ]' ?" z; W- Thomas Edison
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1 d6 a- O! D* [" \Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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