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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.
/ K2 E' Q# H) h  r; _- Andrew S. Tannenbaum/ x, X) l1 L! X: M- ~
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?% S5 ^! Y. \) J
- T.S. Elliot) b2 Q6 f; X& A/ [4 l! t! l5 g7 e& J
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.% K# h6 d4 d& _1 G. c2 c
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19811 C  b  d4 L5 n4 h! X
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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& j& N. X, a+ E* }+ H8 y+ L$ 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.
# D2 }( v! F* ^9 B8 n" z/ l- George Pompidou
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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.* q% w; g) C% x7 v7 x4 \! f5 q
- 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.9 u* P) \- H8 Q% x6 W( \
- Anonymous
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8 f' V8 e$ O1 E; v7 L1 IComputers 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./ o- y8 ?$ U- @! q7 x
- Andy Rooney4 |% P' U8 L0 Q( d- B: q# S

* q/ C" _( p; X+ c, H8 AIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
) u  q  [) I$ J/ ?, }- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.' k' }( J, q- k$ q+ x" [
- 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.
; z  c% ?; V3 m2 k0 i7 ~- Scott Adams
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+ {. K% m  @9 M9 g; |In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
& C% F7 w/ A9 `4 u" C, m2 j3 g- Anonymous
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If 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.
  y+ B6 s0 h4 q- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
5 d3 |2 K: x& l* t' j- Anonymous
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# n. K7 R; S6 V: X. x) ^* T5 [* P& HThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
0 x& Z. ~# r2 ~, Q- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
' ^- k2 Q; i" S0 C+ y/ X' r- Elbert Hubbard
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, k8 g# d! R; ~* j1 a$ f9 eAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
9 a. J! ^8 x' ~* I0 S- David Thornburg
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% h& S0 }+ m+ M  \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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  |7 l  f1 n  ?9 ?' s. J/ [Save early, save often.
3 b" I6 X  ?: C: J- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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+ j" X; X4 r5 X! q8 j0 IBuild early and build often.- n- N3 T& w- Q3 @! p) j
- Proprietary developer adage) G, {0 t/ ~2 M9 ^2 E

6 B0 L4 h6 b( q/ J& N1 }' ZRelease early and release often.4 j0 U  C. _, r! n6 k5 x) d- k6 b1 d- @
- 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.
: m7 Q7 Y& l0 P! Q- 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.
: r9 i" g# N8 B' g. u8 K- Anonymous
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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.
1 V4 \' C" l, ^; V- Margaret Thatcher
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" J4 s7 l, W0 [5 [" OThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.0 }8 s' d& \' j0 V( t; ^  U8 c
- Jerry Olson2 |0 j0 K% L  q2 F: U: {' v# H

6 j- Z5 t3 ~9 X1 p$ gThe 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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/ j( f# l$ E" N7 [9 Q9 ?Everything that can be invented has been invented.* {) I  Y2 t7 E* E6 t8 ^
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18994 g& q: G* w) m; n5 y5 r5 |( [
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT  f% x8 c: P; f& l. S
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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0 n+ m+ _. L  L" u( n! `( J2 J, JAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
9 `( b+ B9 e1 J- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
' M. s8 g' R& Q# D' q4 L2 Y- Gregory Benford
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. n4 _) k7 w' C5 \/ eNever 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.4 Q2 \6 e9 H4 ~* T4 f" R. g
- Alan J. Perlis
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+ t7 `  i  S: ]+ tI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
+ B% {6 m! p; Y0 h2 k+ N# T- Thomas Edison: {0 F1 @1 H& n
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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.' q5 j  k2 P0 a7 J+ Q: m4 p) p" D
- 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$ a* W+ `: Y# p9 e3 k
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net." J. x  f  T, @. L+ ]: ?
- Senator Bob Dole/ J3 ]" F1 R! o
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.+ Y2 x1 d; E& p! u1 m, `
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.# h* t" v6 F2 D) Z- F) |
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy  a1 A9 x! N' n: w& ]% O
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes." C& Q! e/ w) w- O# b8 E' d
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
; }7 r% o  u  ]6 J3 r- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos0 C* a9 Q, a3 p+ H" w8 b$ ]

  w9 c9 X- _$ m. b5 w$ v! ]How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?8 }8 d" y# i* C7 ]9 v
- Al Gore on Y2K
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. v) a' B' }5 Q# H! D5 dThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.) @. \5 e% H: u% F
- Sydney Brenner in 1927( s( k. y, ~8 ?1 ^7 f

9 C, k6 ]/ L) P! r! l5 l) RThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
! E/ o# `6 c/ h7 P# s! u" ~- 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.9 D* t& g7 a1 @9 P5 }; X0 k" D& s
- Linus Torvalds
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3 J: O( z  i6 y/ Y8 mWindows is just DOS in drag.
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" {  O- f& u& b, DThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.$ r# ?" E1 |, A
- 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 _" @2 `7 S7 L0 {9 O: A$ p4 y  O
- Thomas Edison' J! }5 ~. f, G9 C6 o

# B7 c# n4 @3 s3 x9 u2 `Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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