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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.& z6 s2 V1 O- i2 C2 s+ N# p5 O
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum$ ?/ `5 }9 x, j
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
5 j: \/ i5 r4 I3 U* b- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
% u, _, M( M4 J0 P" P% t8 \, S- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.4 e; [' i& q& V/ e6 d$ A
- 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.. H  q* p, X: O& R# s
- George Pompidou0 C6 N$ I5 @- l, u* M" J

: z. O& }: d/ ZTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand./ d* Z* `2 p2 ~  m- }, l. S
- Anonymous
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. U6 x3 B+ g; H; GFor 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.6 _( c! ^  o  Z0 m
- 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.
) J; o9 N9 y% W7 t5 t7 y" N9 _- Andy Rooney: B0 H: v( V/ h: r# d

+ @" S) a9 h: r5 o3 V3 AIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
7 W1 e  x0 y* I8 c2 y2 a- @- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.6 m. d4 ~* B$ w- @
- 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.0 w/ J/ H& w8 i: p2 o
- 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.  A' t* {7 I2 |. Q, p! Q
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
; L- s# Y% @5 c+ K+ g; h& x/ m- 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.
. k) Q* }  p  G' D5 O1 |, y# J- Anonymous
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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.$ s$ S3 ], g$ x2 U0 ~1 t; q
- Jeremy S. Anderson& C1 L3 o' d" w
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.3 Y  `8 T" c& m- L$ [4 t3 r( P
- Elbert Hubbard8 S# Y- h7 i4 J0 S' m
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be., q, J  [& b! e; e+ p, y4 b
- David Thornburg
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4 j* _7 j, M3 ~! E- s6 o3 c9 N5 GThose 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 m+ ?; R; f1 {* K2 W% u. Q
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.7 ~3 V; K* e, R5 \$ G
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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) R, E& F. u6 H$ {6 VBuild early and build often.
& i4 y, _' q2 C; e0 A- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
! a4 B9 d" e# x8 e7 H9 Z& v- Open source developer adage6 X( \, Y5 B9 g
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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.
0 i' e" {7 W: q) y4 h1 F- 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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, z+ p, X- h- ]/ O& X6 J1 ?$ VThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.( z* J/ _, n& c  J& z0 I% z. I
- Margaret Thatcher! P+ Z9 C+ e7 @% Z, T% }

! v# L- ^: Z* B. o. sThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.1 O. J: a4 d1 V4 u) ?
- Jerry Olson
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1 Y$ ~* V2 q3 J; f9 R# U6 j, Z" L! E7 aThe 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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; O' J/ c6 N* T. IEverything that can be invented has been invented.. w7 O0 o2 I; D- F. G4 }% R
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
+ A& ?' s- O  v% t& v- Fairchild Research and Development, 19693 j5 p! w: S# _% I
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.5 q) ^, B7 M5 J
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.% K2 ]' A) }. z; L3 R8 ]) g
- Gregory Benford: W. q6 r+ \3 ?
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.) K" I8 P- H1 K% t9 x0 [( m1 N* G
- Anonymous
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, r( z4 h: T& I# s  _! M& Q8 l4 wA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.0 i" U" B- O4 U1 p
- Alan J. Perlis  \- F' S' [4 y9 y; y0 E/ z

' h! \/ T; P2 j3 O$ P! j2 eI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.6 J; D; p, w1 X* \6 l
- 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.  A& N4 S: }# K. _5 v- a
- 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.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.  h  N) e0 d$ q/ I3 i6 F  ?2 l0 d
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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8 E4 Y$ f6 ]3 j0 Y From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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" U) p+ U3 m4 wTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
3 s8 G9 W. [: V- \2 m. P- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
% K. J' s) \) A0 P4 P1 U- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
3 \+ I; B* J+ c9 u1 Q1 s5 c- Sydney Brenner in 19270 p& w/ O! `9 S8 o' |# h+ i: c8 C

2 Z$ o8 {8 _0 h3 \+ jThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.8 v; y3 Z; L+ U' N9 n
- Linus Torvalds( @* `7 f! h9 J3 H! r; {: v0 `  [
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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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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
% V% z  ^  e/ [/ s" e- 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.
& Q) V/ X; k. q: P) u- Thomas Edison, [7 W4 Q3 U+ j8 u2 A: \

' H& c- v% H1 }7 n+ tEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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