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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.% \& U6 N. i( O' L/ h) B
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum4 u* p+ x; e7 _) E

" ]: \; K9 @8 r- wWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?) E# A* m. a$ j5 o
- T.S. Elliot% b9 X, G2 T" e! B+ q; x
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
! h5 {2 R0 }$ E5 J- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981) n$ Z6 K+ a  g. `1 Z. t3 M. X

# M: @  E6 e& ZThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.5 E- ^' B* J* X: a: m; u+ r
- B. F. Skinner, h2 J* \4 _) i' n9 p  o

: n9 o# G% k0 O8 f( {/ rThere 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.# [" k1 z, ?/ C' C; n
- George Pompidou' |  ~  v/ ^8 a9 B1 |4 b1 U

/ O& T) q) L0 k5 H6 r( yTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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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.
* @0 B* d# j4 H# o- Anonymous
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  s4 F  J: c$ ZComputers 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.- [# b& _* N$ `1 ^5 p
- Andy Rooney% l* R( p, M( b. T: x8 D; ^. R0 ^; E

0 Z. o, ^# D! BIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
1 h+ m6 n; Q* {- Richard Power
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1 T1 k& \/ |* M# H' }I think there is a world market for maybe five computers./ f8 L1 n* U# Y6 r7 T; D
- 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.
2 B* p6 Q- r" E3 E. e" J- 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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
2 {& _/ a7 k2 z8 `  f2 ~. l. q- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
& N& L( p: F8 `6 @- 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." D) I5 _! X& F4 i8 Y; b
- 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.5 \$ f% m4 f* k/ ]' ]4 d: m. h+ N
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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6 \' U  t8 Q' e. N1 Y% {One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
8 }* x; _3 j3 W& d- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
1 w& A6 F! J: W; }1 ~- 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.( r- j$ |. D7 z5 t4 d3 P4 V
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word& I" Q, n4 J' J: I8 L

, I4 Z  B1 D( T7 qBuild early and build often.
8 Y4 v% ?+ e6 _1 B7 j$ j  E- Proprietary developer adage& t: p( {, `+ U3 x1 J

# M) H) g8 d# K* F4 M) g7 uRelease early and release often.7 `* o, A1 W4 q
- Open source developer adage2 M8 p5 G9 w- Z, v9 \+ K

: e2 g: V4 w( pWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.' q$ s+ D$ ~3 D% u
- 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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# A( M% o8 e* B! SThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
8 J4 U1 \4 J, X9 r- Margaret Thatcher
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/ ~  `) e; \! ?# v/ V" u) Y: XThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
) g4 J/ P5 a: E9 ]& A- Jerry Olson* ]1 x" f, v' i8 ~
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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.
1 O; O) O8 R3 S2 m+ S! j- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
7 c& s% ]9 p- A+ ~5 P1 O- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT- {* |7 p" n5 l( K* X
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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! ^! G- _7 g9 |1 S7 eAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
3 V& K- N: W. n0 W" d9 M" b- Gregory Benford0 A, j: t- e. w9 L3 F4 {

( u2 c, O! Z+ l. tNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.% N3 n; z: X# ]" u
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* Z) G4 v% m; k7 Z4 ~A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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& u, d# B" c& T$ K" _; }I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.6 U% o! u8 ^  i5 I4 ~* o! Z5 M
- Thomas Edison5 G' `4 \# r$ W
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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.. \8 R+ L# U9 w2 b% U8 ~0 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: F, o( _2 N& n" ]; e6 a7 \, i: l
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.. R' c0 n% P4 l2 i- ]' h
- Senator Bob Dole" I% U1 v  Z. @( v. T+ ~1 y& M

" y0 o8 a3 C+ ^. C3 }2 XComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
5 u0 ?5 F( m1 N, i) Z5 z. o" c+ k- Popular Mechanics, 19498 P. R, y: y* P" y8 `
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.$ Y4 Z. x0 J% ]9 ^  ?
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy, j0 L8 |7 b# r7 T- r

+ U, q" X) ^3 Q) c0 ATechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.5 n3 A; t  p; {$ j% K, g! t9 U
- Andrew Heller, IBM% i. l- j/ ~+ _( E" ]( O! s
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- G# w/ R% P( N! [6 ~% z4 G- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos: ~6 L( E1 W+ ?4 o

' e3 ~7 w7 }* F6 u# ]How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?6 b, T. V! E% X  J  w, A
- Al Gore on Y2K. \1 c5 m8 q6 a( e% P0 s7 v6 k% j

& P8 v* ?, @( N) K, F! FThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
/ B4 \1 l: u  r, i, {- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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3 w3 G1 A5 ~3 u7 iThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
, x1 T: \* ^4 I- 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.* _" A, b+ O( ]$ ?# p
- Linus Torvalds
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9 J/ N- r. n: l8 X3 d! x- p, `' AWindows is just DOS in drag.
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( m! k2 ^* Z$ |6 MThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
% A& a& d- K9 v* [' o) G) n6 _- 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.+ l0 T5 A- ~1 T) l! C3 V4 n  b
- Thomas Edison( u( _; l5 ]. B3 ^9 Q* g; X
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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