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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.; h' k* o* p6 l# U: N
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum# z% _* q& F( S; n

0 ~4 u' \" i2 B5 `: G9 cWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?0 k; S- {  ?9 R7 M
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.2 x8 [1 @" o  r0 w
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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3 s8 h; n. s6 S8 w% w6 q  R1 ?# x" J5 f& rThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
3 f8 T( Y& h  A2 N- B. F. Skinner& Y5 q5 c# }" v- b6 ^& R5 I

8 _$ e; X: z& U4 o' A" e) e0 B+ }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.# W: J4 n" n' {; |+ O; |8 O& H: R
- George Pompidou& g3 r$ c+ ^7 j  r1 [' R
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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.6 m. w, u3 P, R- j! _. T3 `
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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 g1 ~+ B6 J+ S
- Anonymous
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# s8 B4 @' a8 s" Y: }6 Q+ M9 E1 B- 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.
7 h8 c- D( d5 s& Y7 ~! w; K* m- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
. s7 B3 x2 n* [- Richard Power. v- ^* f8 p' U- I1 \' L# j

4 n4 o: E. u# r( \3 ^' bI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.$ }( Z, b$ J# n3 p( ~6 h
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943; ]9 R5 n- b( @
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.; H7 y# `7 U( O6 |
- Scott Adams
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+ _  l; z+ g: nIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
$ y' d( S+ q# v+ m+ q! B- Anonymous
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9 s/ ?  L  w3 R1 EIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.+ v; k2 t# J: `, @; J, k
- Bradley's Bromide  X3 ^. S& Y: a# o$ e
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.# g( z3 B/ {5 w& {# ]. p2 m+ R
- 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.2 z# G5 b/ E8 L7 S& P
- Anonymous
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# T# o: e6 e. }+ @) wThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
  r, [( m5 _6 M2 L& ~, r4 o5 }- v4 Q" C- Jeremy S. Anderson
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1 R% N; X0 x' c9 \7 f  ^5 XOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.% {0 f; \4 W! u5 B# S2 V6 d
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.2 b3 X( p5 X* c. w! ?7 f
- David Thornburg8 }; V7 k0 \- A+ u5 H1 P
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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.2 g& ~5 m5 a- y+ T
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# z+ w9 v5 }& s$ \% ]$ d. q* vSave early, save often.
! v: Z) B* q3 o. n- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word; i/ E8 Q0 R. I  R* Q! _# g; y
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Build early and build often.
" ?# G) q7 G; @/ S5 x- Proprietary developer adage
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. k9 O# D& A2 ]Release early and release often.
) t, l) @5 e/ E& N- Open source developer adage( g& m1 G1 O0 Q! d- R

, Q! `7 m! K1 c6 R9 ]; F2 uWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- r& @' c6 T, T3 _- 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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8 u3 D2 R+ `! S5 }( I+ bThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.8 ~7 b5 A1 C3 y  k& E& p
- Margaret Thatcher% ?- e8 l4 e  K, x3 p' h% ^

" L- q) g; ]: ]  R2 G. uThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.7 ]$ E9 v) v: e" o( J; R
- Jerry Olson
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" F4 p% j( E  H% A- L# S$ AThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.4 a& ^* u, y- N" P( [
- Porterfield2 U0 f6 h: L8 F5 y0 X! _
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
# r& u9 c& s$ I& `9 }) p- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT( o0 n: Z0 Y  n0 y# y
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
2 N* U3 _2 o- P. f) `0 h- Arthur C. Clarke
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/ S4 \9 J4 p" k0 s5 aAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
1 j7 P) k, @) N& \9 e- Gregory Benford
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' y- r" D1 Q! Z/ sNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.6 a/ w; V$ B' V4 Y
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.( I4 i, d: k6 [( J9 v% }- [
- Alan J. Perlis8 z# M) g4 ~( G# s6 i  n, ~

4 e& O) v- J$ C( }( JI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.2 p& u" n( i5 g# D1 E6 H; ^. h
- 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.
; ~/ L6 u; V7 r! g, W- 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.
& B8 k! t/ D0 B! N! v& m0 a& j- Senator Bob Dole6 }: d1 {( c7 j" c1 N$ D

" U4 |) V1 |: g$ X% g# m) gComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
; q% @/ r# B& O  T; |) f: ^) h- Popular Mechanics, 1949) Z) i+ I. g) q9 f
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
7 @6 ~( ?1 V, L3 t3 n; s4 N- 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.
7 t2 p# q; F' d8 l( K/ n- Andrew Heller, IBM. e6 @0 p* Q. x" S7 q% q% f( v
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
3 F  A7 A; \- ]+ R) d: L- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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1 g9 v7 I; z/ b7 \! j+ fHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?& R8 w  U  {$ M% {4 S* R& M
- Al Gore on Y2K" K0 \2 @- F, Z  j8 ~* t, }

- A; _" d$ R! O8 XThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- T4 _4 m7 {) l6 @- Sydney Brenner in 19271 h( ]9 h0 I7 C$ f4 z

% w# Q5 c2 E# m8 n" P; q" z0 \The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
2 Y) ]; A* X* ~- Linus Torvalds
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- a# O) F# k" m  C9 N+ _, q$ YTo 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.2 `. A# V2 `3 D! w  W# G7 w# B
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.* m+ u2 X$ H- P, M, |
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.7 P$ Q/ _/ ^" \' s. i! R2 H6 u6 @
- 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.3 E+ f7 F/ T7 m0 }' ?5 `- Z0 N
- Thomas Edison
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* b4 ?3 n' w' D) X5 uEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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