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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; W' R* {- X. ?6 F$ T0 d- Andrew S. Tannenbaum3 r9 ]6 Q. Z7 R
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?7 r1 ^7 p8 E4 m2 H# |  v9 W
- T.S. Elliot+ a- C% x/ |$ G1 u$ K3 k  g/ g

) E9 H9 J  d' |0 x' F640K ought to be enough for anybody.
+ J. B5 o* l6 t4 _- r- p  ~, v  m  Z- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19811 V8 A8 |4 D  o5 A
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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./ D- }7 I* K0 S$ D
- George Pompidou3 X3 Z4 _$ M; k0 c4 z$ 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.
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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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; `) b# |0 t! e% w6 ~6 i9 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.
% n9 R* o2 e  ^! {' q2 Q3 Q; h- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- e5 k- z* N# j6 R- 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.
* j6 o1 Y( w( Q4 ?, f% O+ q- 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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1 [5 Y+ o8 w- q* m. sIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.& f  u- \6 S. N) |( Z
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
, P/ p9 s! x# v+ i: T5 z9 N* L- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric5 m: S; B8 R' x. P

, Z. m6 F8 n! T: q, N& QAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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( q- V2 E7 C- @0 C5 b! i  f* pThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
( `) W* B2 \* T' k, q+ L: K- Jeremy S. Anderson7 S5 F# r, r2 a

+ x3 J# O; Z; {2 G, MOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.3 r' M4 J6 J+ M
- Elbert Hubbard& y% I% ?' l4 Y1 R5 e

& b: i, a% x% x' xAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.& F, F) J* H' ?/ R$ `
- David Thornburg' _5 B% X) c2 }0 i4 \
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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.+ [* z( a5 C) [7 T6 ^
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
" j' q( r( b" b3 l; p- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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/ x6 J% X, ^; t; l" t5 D9 gBuild early and build often., t% N: a5 G3 f3 R
- Proprietary developer adage9 U$ a- p- w0 t, Q) X( H
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Release early and release often.
, u8 L$ j2 D; R( F" k8 N- Open source developer adage
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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.
2 c0 q9 f3 i7 u+ V2 O2 v+ `. T- 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.( L& e7 q: |. n0 l
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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.& r) W' e: @9 K0 B8 d  s2 r+ S
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.$ P5 n) c# b% W4 d! [
- Jerry Olson/ N: x0 y! ]6 b" s4 k: M. d
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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.3 o+ K4 @" k3 L$ y: |/ S$ M2 g
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
( K2 N, l) [1 T- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899& a  w2 k- A/ D& {  I6 I0 n( q& g; J

9 C) o" Z; s! N- _8 JGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT$ O; ?- ~) U! r7 F% I. H- {( z/ R
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969* }( W5 l7 c) W. E

( B4 b5 l$ }6 e( c% s, C1 bAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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6 g7 j1 c/ _+ GAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
, n- G! n9 S3 E1 m. ^4 y& \* m- Gregory Benford
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, D6 J! i+ Q' cNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.4 n6 m" n8 S( M; B
- Anonymous2 h: w0 S5 P/ x% B4 L
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.% s# R/ `! d" j
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work./ K5 u0 W- a, o, \5 H2 l1 O
- Thomas Edison
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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.
  G) t: A. ?: O5 B( v7 J  X% 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.% F. @& H1 i# ~( t  W0 p& k: ?
- Senator Bob Dole
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" T! t# h1 z  }Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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" J+ a4 D. _) J! k* t" K  |% @; ~ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.) c3 R3 Y1 `* T9 F9 V. F: ~& R
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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5 E4 h1 C0 U" @; JTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.- o. l+ \0 }5 Q8 a" n
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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0 T/ \1 F2 \% j" |AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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* s7 k! U. i2 lThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.0 k7 \" l0 ]/ d: J4 ], k! R- @
- Sydney Brenner in 1927- d1 P% I8 `# H- D8 [% p9 y+ f1 _
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.: |% W) f$ v0 ?
- Linus Torvalds1 I% Y+ v& ~0 l. T0 V- G

" {9 E7 I7 o7 `. Y9 R$ mTo 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.+ a1 q" x3 a1 z, [0 {- ]
- Linus Torvalds+ p! h% |8 v- y) m
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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, v# o' S1 @# ?There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.1 ~, X3 ?) R6 J! R5 d+ s, 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.* `' J! m3 [; P, y
- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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