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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.
: l% v4 K) N& _1 |- k5 ?8 G1 E- Andrew S. Tannenbaum8 x# S% U, O; z0 G$ u: d
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?0 v4 Q; K. i; a+ M
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.4 p9 J; V0 I9 g9 V; n8 _, U4 S
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981# l0 t3 V) `/ e& g

  a8 z2 N, X) l- Y* y! u; qThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.1 _- V. \3 [4 {+ W. t
- B. F. Skinner% s9 N! c. M8 E9 F/ e+ q# J

; B9 i: e, {! e- G; T" X* MThere 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.
0 |" t4 @0 k( j: C- `8 G! m5 v1 d' k- George Pompidou
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; T- k* D5 l, T7 l" n0 A& ?' NTechnology 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.
* l7 S0 U; x; L. L* d- Anonymous
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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., r) z! S; p% n
- 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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$ u1 P* |% N8 s7 uI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.+ o/ u+ o! o1 f9 U& e8 h
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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# v" K, D6 n$ w8 o$ wIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
) t1 S# t6 n2 E  m2 d9 L5 n& i- Scott Adams
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2 z5 p9 p* t7 o! S* C7 K: k2 u' cIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.$ K& ?0 e: e- a' y0 q
- Anonymous( C) [; j0 Q5 j; J" ?" N
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
2 t; l+ [2 J8 K& J2 `! _2 Y! @- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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2 R3 u' N* q" W0 x5 |( gAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.3 p8 b! ^3 E# X7 L1 N/ i1 ]" q
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
& A1 z# p) Z/ _, K' K) s- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
0 q8 r/ w; A3 {: a" [" h! W8 ^- David Thornburg
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( D+ {$ S6 a+ ^& g* t  `* QThose 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.) q+ c, w, N) T. e3 |/ C
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
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4 S* ?# x! }/ M0 R* `# vBuild early and build often.
9 O$ V5 A3 v2 R/ Q1 ]7 S- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.+ l0 G1 t6 I8 m
- Open source developer adage
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3 s3 U# v  `7 m+ H5 H5 L8 P, N; x# w( JWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
" W0 ?  }5 {3 v4 E& k. u) o# W. G- Carl Sagan) {6 v1 |; G  m+ a
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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.% I; g) }. s2 ~8 g5 i/ s
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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.) @7 x5 R; s) Z. J" l. V9 s7 p
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.# _( u. d& Z( E7 q3 H, c0 a
- Jerry Olson, N' w6 T/ y3 }5 a: h# V6 j7 J

* L2 j- Y* R  {% W8 g) Z1 RThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
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, S8 [) B: g9 b& i  G* N9 EEverything that can be invented has been invented.' c/ b' ^" @. A2 T
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT2 [% T. z0 [4 [; ~
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19692 x5 P, Z) t# E) W0 D0 q

- L5 ^0 l- }4 JAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
0 S: L. y1 a; w- Arthur C. Clarke
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* V% i0 n7 k4 R& f2 x) @4 ?6 HAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced." |$ n$ q% y+ S
- Gregory Benford  N6 O3 W3 f8 s$ m, G# p4 ]

  v: T& E7 V# R! INever let a computer know you're in a hurry.  z* w, q4 I' n/ D( ^9 s( l0 l
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God./ R. O  c4 O, J. J  C. c& A; ?$ B
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.' y1 v# x' a: R( |1 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.# \$ t0 K- p) A8 K# X- m* 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+ g# Q8 L4 u; ^! s2 y0 F
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
5 e0 O- V% ^0 O; c, P. \" P- Senator Bob Dole
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7 c7 K: F$ Z, q- h( I# [% g9 [8 ]Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
: c  h1 x* ]7 A7 x- p$ F8 U- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.1 f5 b. w2 y) |* j
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy8 ^. C2 z5 H& X
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
) ?9 Q" g" U9 K1 g, U2 E! l) i9 l, @- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.; E# ~- v  j/ P8 U. [; B3 F
- 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?" }6 f9 V  y5 t
- Al Gore on Y2K  q! d- X3 \( Z) F

2 H% i. W- o- s' q7 @The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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' z; W+ g" l" n5 \, [& n) C9 PThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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6 p7 f* a& c3 \: d! NTo 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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* ~1 t8 ^' X. L5 C9 n+ Q. |5 d7 kWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.0 W$ H. }9 W" F6 M1 q3 t- @
- 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.
& I5 `2 b% d5 N- Thomas Edison
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0 z1 M; Z7 B1 C! e5 Q% hEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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