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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.+ Z8 u) g0 A0 ?% U% C/ ^) S  b
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum8 U9 Q' `  V8 }, s1 L$ P

+ ~1 i1 w( F! A" ?" f9 CWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.7 ~* H' G6 z, c! u
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981( t# [) G+ P! }
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.3 V" z6 V% r$ \
- B. F. Skinner
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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.( F* O) v2 P, `- w9 Q3 H6 J& O  O, {
- George Pompidou
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; a- M: r$ u! B* ATechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- A8 _% }# W" M+ S" r3 k+ a9 O- 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.
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% }( Y9 s# C# Y& cComputers 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" R3 s9 a! D* Q; y; d$ p( l. J
- Andy Rooney8 _# @  f4 U' R2 i/ J: A1 ^

* R7 D3 M- M- h( m" |5 x4 M9 `In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
/ H3 X2 A6 n* Y# b- Richard Power* i! [* I/ u6 b
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
3 C  j& }7 H) l- \' r1 ?- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19434 A0 c* g% T; ~0 |8 D# H
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.5 u/ p) j& ?  f  k
- Scott Adams
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9 C$ y# P: ^( Q. P, O# cIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.- z  Z$ r2 l* n" j
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.9 @7 o; ]! a  t, }' F
- Bradley's Bromide, M* b. H  {! M9 K- _& c( M
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
8 S: j" i. t2 E  l$ [3 P  ]- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric/ Q% j/ Q* ?2 v% ~

  J1 Y7 b# F1 c. [At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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  U4 F' Q9 ~0 l5 qThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
! I7 r) k  R9 r" X" ?! K! t- Jeremy S. Anderson
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! x" r! R4 y" A  ]& Q' V- U+ `One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.8 n5 m# O9 U' Q- [( g# B: K
- Elbert Hubbard
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: K: k# G, a) G8 J) MAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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3 z" T4 J  e6 U/ L2 B' WThose 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.8 E6 ~9 C" s' q" _4 H& r
- Anonymous
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9 e) v. ?- u* s) E  v, p" ~Save early, save often.
% M1 c' M2 @3 V3 X/ V5 z) U- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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" e  m. s/ M$ t1 [: x! BBuild early and build often.- a. \2 X% R$ x6 x/ r
- Proprietary developer adage
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3 d! e$ _' a* D' F$ Y9 KRelease early and release often.: S* n' g6 Y* z& Y
- Open source developer adage% F' u! B5 U  I! y9 A! x
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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.- J: x5 C! R3 t- F+ e7 _
- 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.' w! r  M) [& C
- Anonymous
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0 t) |( L8 F; M& \There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.4 T. l4 M* Y, t3 q+ H5 G3 N, d
- Margaret Thatcher
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* b  p2 E( ?1 s1 v7 l5 FThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
6 @% Z8 B7 D- o6 j/ e$ g- Jerry Olson9 r: W) ]; D& u) S, R5 R7 E

* ?( b" H* x- ~The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.! A+ i. W, U4 m4 V3 v0 h) _# z
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
6 Y* i2 i' b- |6 w- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899* @) e2 J$ [* v0 W* K6 ]7 m/ P9 L
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
" m5 f- q8 Q5 A, j+ b# t- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969" c& M! r# m% X9 ^# w+ I3 s7 ?

$ W2 E. e+ O0 `" `Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
' y& Z  N2 h8 }& j* U. i. g- Arthur C. Clarke9 k( o; E& @0 H: p& P- `

+ ^' z$ v5 J: g3 R; JAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
6 ?2 H* Z# O- z" q4 G) V1 S2 V- Gregory Benford5 V# n( ~' X- H9 R9 P6 w. t
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.4 p/ ]2 k8 y8 K5 Z/ _
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.2 n$ A. |% u( P3 u5 Y5 p4 s
- Alan J. Perlis1 J; c8 E7 w- z% ?0 v* f

' ?! x, [9 A3 x$ fI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
7 o: l( t5 Q2 {- y- Thomas Edison, @; D/ n8 J! F+ F/ u' n

' r3 `8 e( n6 E5 O+ KGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.: a% V3 H( m! D3 l$ c
- 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( _* y9 N; k4 q

6 E- g2 W' D/ J/ dThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.4 N2 r- Q5 N1 b( m0 }6 S2 I( t
- Senator Bob Dole; j& x3 g/ A$ R; b! o( \; ~

5 f: o/ \) E; I" MComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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0 A  Y' d. k. X# w+ Z/ s: A From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.+ Q- k& b5 q- j  ~
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy! @" H9 K6 T. n* b1 e

3 L" F' v) v, r5 S8 mTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.4 {  H; l0 B" |) q+ {
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
$ `: X- }% w9 O1 W* N& P- 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?
5 f1 N, Z5 B4 j$ j4 N+ {4 A" D! t- Al Gore on Y2K5 }! X  x1 T( x6 I+ {
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
+ t, u$ y4 w7 ]  n0 H4 V' n' B- T- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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4 f. I4 p) `. Z0 ?5 S+ {The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.- x9 [- F, v! I& v. d  R' W4 q
- 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.+ p# l" @+ y, ]
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, p3 _2 \1 m# o. U" V! Z1 D& b5 uThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.1 q4 H# ~. w1 k
- 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.
6 D. j/ `4 l7 {0 Q- Thomas Edison. B) ]* ]" {  Z% E

3 ?5 x. ?6 Q9 k  r) l: P* k9 Y' ~Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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