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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, W+ z' K& X+ I
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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1 n- K8 `3 n. |6 s. X* t( m- T/ mWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
5 K, k8 E" k- t1 r- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.1 k- L' ?8 }8 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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There 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.  s& u6 v! V! |4 e7 \6 q  S
- George Pompidou
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7 e# I# W% g8 M9 WTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.3 L( t5 D: U! l: P& v
- Anonymous6 {( b: s1 \. F% C1 ~7 J( h; U1 ?
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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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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.& i% w4 K+ c; |0 X  m) q
- Andy Rooney
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) i7 d" D: b# a: U; V6 {& pIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
% ]$ D& M4 K# e) F6 W- Richard Power4 v- j" e- c! A0 M* S% M. F& Y
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
7 c# h: M, C$ G: M) R' q9 f- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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* E! K" M; |) W) D0 n. x8 \If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.0 `# J7 `" K* D5 U
- Scott Adams
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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.& j( F7 ^7 S4 c8 V: q- f
- Anonymous9 P2 w3 }- q# B7 k9 H. ?

( d/ j1 t7 p5 B9 W2 l2 \2 @If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.5 `& Y8 E2 b8 ?- A; L3 Q6 H
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
5 \1 o9 ]5 e5 a: a- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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: b. Q: _. O% u' N) }$ \7 ?2 f" E# S! hAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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% T: V: i; d( @# Y2 m# `; kThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
) ~2 K# R3 q; `6 ?) F+ c. P- Jeremy S. Anderson6 b% o0 H) a6 C  B) g$ I
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
1 ^; k: u% F; a3 B- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.8 Y% r, r) e1 X/ s- ~. W: q; e! N
- David Thornburg/ u; j2 t/ r' s# K' u3 E
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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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5 H7 i+ t; F+ K: nSave early, save often.
& ?0 {" x# M7 w, g- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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; H- j. V* K3 RBuild early and build often.
% ~  p7 `% ^$ a( b, Y- Proprietary developer adage  h$ c5 C- a2 l, h
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Release early and release often.
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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.- @% I6 ~2 j+ F! }+ Q0 e
- Carl Sagan  W0 @9 j& {0 b6 h8 |/ w( Q- }( N" o: v
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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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.6 V$ @2 k  h/ L$ u4 X) |
- Margaret Thatcher( {% m  Y9 u  C( K

9 ?. @6 x$ W! N# ~( E+ v8 wThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.7 |- A2 [) s$ ~% C3 z) U
- Jerry Olson3 C9 c6 [( Y" `0 Z$ n; I! R- e' e' z
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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.! m8 L+ X" q. ?; w% b
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
/ @' Y  g! I+ V4 y0 D; S- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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+ b- F5 _, {  k" {' s2 I- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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3 N: K/ i+ g9 m) z5 LAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.; q2 t5 V3 P  l* U8 {
- Arthur C. Clarke' v2 U, Z$ D8 k& m, Z* v! t. F

" @( r1 {, j  D& t9 S$ z& EAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.! ~, W4 v. N1 c, C; Y. d
- Gregory Benford
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3 [, |. C6 `0 E. L2 lNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.% _1 R( Q, E" L. ?( ^7 u
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
1 A, y1 b! x6 y, t0 `6 H$ n, n- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
) @% R" p2 |. v/ ?# G0 A- Thomas Edison: L$ o. H' N- Y! c1 z

) i1 O0 P" V4 A* j7 t0 s- m7 FGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
5 @- {1 f- c2 o+ \5 i9 }- 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 developed5 }( V0 T/ X9 S6 |2 _, K% \& R

+ s7 u9 \7 B7 O! n- a: K$ w% pThe Internet is a great way to get on the net./ O9 e" x* H) v5 c, a- s* ^& P  h
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.0 u3 a  n' ^3 C6 W. D' L. v( C
- Popular Mechanics, 1949- j: J4 [3 z7 v% [3 K+ I! C
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
8 Z+ ~2 U2 i" g  b- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy: |5 _  ?  R+ P9 p  G

7 X" [; |1 L7 u6 Y/ [& ^, zTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.$ p' _% B5 C% u
- Andrew Heller, IBM, g2 t* }. g. f1 b
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
5 S' _5 w0 r; Y7 q, O! |/ U! c$ L- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos& d& D3 L! U9 H7 a8 p
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?. i) \2 s$ n; S# }
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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' ?+ `- ]7 _# A5 y% r" O* G5 F, jThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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( D0 l% a2 W; O( O* M4 N3 CTo 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.
1 T( l; H1 T+ D5 H) J' Y( w: s- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
& O# t! q$ w1 y8 b- 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." I3 E% _+ f% f$ v4 l' H% ~
- Thomas Edison4 j4 P- G6 [, P' U$ Z0 E
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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