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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.
, b) g" c. L" G* f- Andrew S. Tannenbaum$ O3 S2 V, ~1 ~7 _( M0 R

) a: Z$ \  i# _' H( DWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?( ]' m  H2 S) K+ p) k* a
- T.S. Elliot7 q7 Q+ U* A  k  q% Y

! B* B9 b1 v' X" ]640K ought to be enough for anybody.
' F. h  Z3 B0 c. J- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19818 a$ x/ w3 c4 \- z- Q+ V% |
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.0 ?- Q/ c4 ?5 _; U! i3 \
- B. F. Skinner* I' i6 n5 {$ `  ^! ?) ]# e

# b$ O- p$ I7 ?4 VThere 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.
! x4 G8 a! a& Q  i* U3 U0 B5 v* ]- 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.2 ^' }5 m( Q- a/ u
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* K. n  v* |# u& F0 y' J2 ]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.$ _" b1 ?6 d  R( r& u
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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.& E5 j2 }9 K+ @4 m: c5 O6 G
- Andy Rooney
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( ?( A) O% ?: p% I8 |: z7 AIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers." W6 i; Q# T  z! l: p, O% ~
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.# q1 Z. q0 m0 ~" n
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943$ W6 ]# S/ @8 `6 n: N

; i6 j! ^  t$ t8 b. C7 S# eIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
$ R" q5 {+ {$ I/ c- 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.9 i8 V+ q5 g5 p" O' `9 `
- Anonymous
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% Q$ {/ @! A# n  q! O8 [If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.% z4 E; Z: Y4 ]
- Bradley's Bromide5 w1 r+ |4 v% D$ C& e  S

: Q. u& N" N; r: VThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.9 u# ^& z* \$ D5 K
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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( h4 |) Q5 B- m4 uAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.+ v4 E; L1 {. y' D
- Anonymous
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# h9 E2 \) }+ l* D/ lThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
1 A' A, d- h& g& g6 l4 K; r- Jeremy S. Anderson
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# |* @& C8 A. C4 SOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
  F/ y: }" Q! S) c6 x! A" M- Elbert Hubbard7 @% U# R% [5 t6 }: r4 a4 i

3 D! X' `( X6 {1 @Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
+ F* `; E" j9 J% s7 I- David Thornburg% Z' x4 P3 l1 `2 V& o; k9 |

2 u% |+ j9 g3 l: `, M9 kThose 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.
/ b4 A$ {! \  b, J: T9 n- Anonymous
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* F" a" n9 b( D9 Z$ PSave early, save often.
: A( G9 h  r/ J+ V2 U- Y. |* I- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word/ C8 F, k, V6 s0 Z- c0 G
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Build early and build often.
. V1 h4 d8 {- C8 b! n9 Q2 y* X) \. n- Proprietary developer adage2 r+ w6 ], m" R- W$ a

  g; L. [; U7 RRelease early and release often.
5 o! H2 f. n7 e$ S- Open source developer adage
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; b+ ^2 A5 f# JWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
% z6 ?( e9 l9 Y( N$ ?0 Q$ ~- Carl Sagan
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# G" H/ g* c5 b$ z. @* kIf 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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) @/ t& f- s1 ~! Y; a! HThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
) V8 j; \, Q- e- {2 M: o  c$ _' b- Margaret Thatcher9 f% t5 U/ P/ F, L, s

. K' O2 q' T2 e' y9 z& P3 \7 RThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
8 t. ]8 e, M# ?( F5 w- Jerry Olson
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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.' b/ L/ q: b& F
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
% `% b( ]1 l$ ]9 J% }- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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! H3 e5 E# S8 v. ZGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT. A# w; i+ M: z! D, |0 {2 m
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19693 M4 O- `! K; ?7 T+ A

/ i) p3 a9 A. L' O1 Z' KAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
; Z9 Y1 Q, k/ q/ v* B- Arthur C. Clarke
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  _9 {( ?- L) jAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.4 j& }+ X1 k2 c* x; T: H
- Gregory Benford( x4 X; F2 c) [; D. f6 g; e
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.9 y2 @) I2 \0 w0 f5 @7 \
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
+ u# A+ j# e: F( f' |% C- Alan J. Perlis' I/ i; C; R. J, j

, p! R  S8 Q9 s# B6 W- VI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
0 b, K: K# K5 k- Thomas Edison/ ^0 g) N* {/ Q7 W4 n0 u

- L' V( T3 W& T' r3 q& I- aGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.) R: M# _. b( |! `* o
- 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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5 ?  K' A2 l3 ~% I& A3 p& qThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
6 g* ^1 x% |6 k/ L! V9 u- 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 j7 V/ z7 G7 }- Popular Mechanics, 19490 s$ H, I/ x/ d, d2 W; `# X/ X/ I
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
1 E8 }8 q* z, r3 o( s- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy9 s2 @( @9 C4 w* l: \# `
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- F9 a8 Z% z9 K$ k" `3 K- Andrew Heller, IBM9 ^# f# e4 t- ^: {5 h" _0 J: x# c
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive." n' B5 @( Y0 ]. \/ B- B* P
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos9 M) c+ U  t6 x6 y+ Y8 Y2 n0 F8 I+ t

; `: c- t# R' lHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?+ L4 x' c  E. a
- Al Gore on Y2K
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2 G8 ^1 w4 P# {; xThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.  `" `5 d( g2 a. \
- Sydney Brenner in 1927; K0 C8 V3 m0 d, i1 f1 N
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
3 b5 S! P4 d1 _% o/ L% O* J$ c- Linus Torvalds/ ^. \/ n/ ?  D' ~

0 x2 b3 i; S. C& H; j3 `& y% i7 dTo 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.
' t+ R9 N" e. t7 t. {, p! B- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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- 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.
, {( t' g$ |* w8 V- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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