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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.  o* ]  F( J) |* [: s% Y8 Y) W
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum8 U& q, t8 X! N/ W8 V- v

6 S. T. {7 `' C$ d8 F1 g5 `Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
3 e5 z: V+ [$ v2 V! {4 U& ~- T.S. Elliot
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' F/ T/ e4 T) V7 y4 j6 [640K ought to be enough for anybody.3 s6 x/ U; ^8 Y  ~% o6 R
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19816 a! \, @$ I7 p3 T
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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.9 F+ S: E; ]3 R/ K
- George Pompidou) v& {# }! n# E/ J) P3 T
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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.- @4 n: d; O6 l1 \
- 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., s; ?0 I8 D# t3 C' A7 N; u2 A
- Anonymous
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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.2 U9 D: j% w! Y+ w2 a
- Andy Rooney/ e8 C9 Q! U. t( }, V4 q, r5 v

5 C' V$ f( h/ P* j. _" m. WIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.2 @$ C' @, V0 ]1 ?1 u5 C
- Richard Power4 J% l, p( P& ^0 u. m( J# B
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.  Y5 g7 X( H; P: d' J" N, A' Y4 n
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19432 ]+ I8 o$ j/ X3 J
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.  ~) x, k$ y0 T+ M9 ]+ u3 M6 {
- Scott Adams. t( ~9 {. l. w" _  b: f2 w
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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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.5 V4 q8 l* Z6 t8 Z3 t
- Bradley's Bromide
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: X! [  U! C! Y1 CThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.5 v( q7 s4 v$ z/ q: a& M8 g
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric. C8 M, |. a* S
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
# Q# @; E- ~" f! Y: u- Anonymous
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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.
# J1 G( I7 B; Y: e+ [- 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.
" l  `7 W  Z! ?/ ]8 q6 d* X+ d- Elbert Hubbard. ~) V. E7 |  }8 o: [( ?6 X! A
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
/ \0 v. r9 q, N6 A$ k& V& `$ k) Q- David Thornburg
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$ s+ g6 P4 K  G5 g1 v7 x3 ?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.0 j8 @9 n) q6 ~* ^& j8 b( c/ Z5 c
- Anonymous
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) T: l3 n; K( N2 \2 XSave early, save often.
7 b6 H7 V+ H" C" Y- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word3 k( Q$ m$ @$ g0 C2 a( r3 i0 E7 h

7 ^4 ~5 }9 E) o& uBuild early and build often.6 {* U( K: k2 H' {, i. X
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.7 ]# h- K5 L* Y2 L) u
- Open source developer adage
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- Z- Q' ]4 U! B2 m7 c; jWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.: P8 s+ m& v  }& N7 Z8 y
- 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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( u5 L+ }3 y& @7 RThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
5 R8 k2 K# K: B1 ~- Margaret Thatcher2 Q7 ^% U6 l; {+ z2 B7 v

" n  M- b5 ~% W( W& J! B. r1 |The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
) N5 V( {) ]' b1 X0 u# \- Jerry Olson
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% u! y4 \) Q8 z0 G$ NThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.1 v0 v% b, r0 X% k  k/ X
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
. t1 W2 ~  K  G- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18998 @0 L+ r7 r* Y& ]7 A3 y3 M) u

$ d6 Q+ P. a6 n% ]1 a) ~GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT& S3 M( p, M9 c! k+ Y1 J
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19696 S' z( s2 _( \8 |4 F

$ A5 u, H4 H& a8 D+ V) L& ?7 z& WAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.) c' X; T) `, C) M$ r
- Arthur C. Clarke8 L0 s- p& _$ K/ }9 T0 Z5 u* W
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.( ~1 N1 E/ m0 n% c
- Gregory Benford4 Y* K% q! ~: B/ g

* I7 Q: m6 ]/ QNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.1 |2 ?: W, w  k* c+ Q+ q. o
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.. g4 v9 \; C3 [# _+ B
- Alan J. Perlis4 @0 L- I: E$ ]! Q& F+ B* g
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work./ u  }9 F$ ^4 @* [0 a5 j2 R$ x) {
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* E3 R1 P. O# r: E& t4 {. JGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.) `. M- n2 v7 A5 u1 a1 J# J
- 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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  i6 b6 j. f$ g( e4 gThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
# `" o% f) i) a# ?- Senator Bob Dole( _- g" g! f8 x& ]9 c) S6 _

- H+ k4 u- Q" ~* `( d! vComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.$ r" I5 G; z% L& d- U9 q
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
9 C3 {2 O3 c1 s0 @$ @0 v7 g- 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.. F5 G) H. _' `0 O6 T' B
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
0 k. ~0 T" o2 @" g- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?6 i8 V$ q( R$ ?' @
- Al Gore on Y2K( ?& Y* K7 t" u3 V) c
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.: E9 C% P$ Y' A( i1 R
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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! ?1 w& E! K% O) U8 k. rThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.  N; a# q5 ]$ _( v- j% P
- Linus Torvalds* M3 A+ j4 ~1 d$ S4 _# z2 b* e
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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.
0 o+ a+ F! \$ A! j( c* R$ K9 V- Linus Torvalds5 x# u1 n* y% G/ ^6 Q7 \% z, L
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
1 y- \6 E, Y+ B5 c- Anonymous
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" @# G4 }% v' q. r+ CThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
0 J+ U/ n+ s  R+ z  ^& r- 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.
- G( S+ ?- R% R/ |- Thomas Edison% R" ~" Z" T. q$ v0 `1 |+ Z
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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