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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.
/ W. B8 L5 z& A- u/ r1 f- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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& U+ n: w0 b  D* b. CWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
3 i4 B+ Y2 U6 P- Z- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
: y0 n" Q5 T3 b( r- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981' R& h3 u# Y0 G, _& K$ g

: `$ N' O- _1 E3 K4 ~) d- NThe 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.
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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.
3 U! g; g2 U7 S8 Z  {  o4 g! @3 w- Anonymous
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& Q4 n6 z) Z( O+ s* H3 @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.! ~# ^: X9 U1 P6 ?0 r' n8 o: S8 `
- Anonymous$ H: P) Q9 |" N. N2 E7 W

9 T4 Y4 I3 ^8 F0 kComputers 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.
) N. U, ]7 h  D- Andy Rooney
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) l5 e" R! u3 K/ @$ f0 o% pIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
3 L( R! |2 G% k. C7 M1 W$ t7 }7 S4 h- Richard Power5 Y8 u- t6 l7 r/ r% C; R3 X, G) ^+ {
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.8 W2 q1 r- h1 |4 D3 t
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943# T8 g# z% s  d; D) B- I
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- n4 f4 y% n6 ~' x* z* s, i- Scott Adams
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( v1 K- u9 m8 E; o$ k  @In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
5 W4 @+ O# Y/ [8 j. F8 E. P8 w- Anonymous
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# a+ }# J8 o" R' m) FIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.' A$ N( W5 u- [8 {& h
- Bradley's Bromide& i/ m/ y2 M0 j/ ]- l3 |

/ x7 r9 B- ~0 Q, _The Internet is the Viagra of big business.7 g! d; r. i$ H6 z. }, }
- 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.
7 `- w; ~  g' ^9 g* c7 D- T: x- 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.5 X" L8 q4 z+ c* U
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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$ @# x' W" c5 k2 L( FOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
8 H4 V% u* s7 U# t- k) C) S; f! s- Elbert Hubbard
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' S  J  H3 N) l8 _0 [* |6 u* B/ zAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.' I, R$ x1 N0 ?9 ]$ b9 x
- David Thornburg* A& y) f. N6 u- C: L/ x

; p) u) y9 D6 G4 {# oThose 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.
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Save early, save often.
$ B4 q# R/ @# u3 I9 S+ e( j- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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4 p" z9 E- D! e4 Q1 c0 A6 sBuild early and build often.
; C1 x+ D3 X! {- T: l- Proprietary developer adage! J' \2 c% b/ b7 X  t

: Y$ z6 C+ |6 |Release early and release often.2 k4 W" k) c# ?4 Y  b
- Open source developer adage
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0 {, A7 q/ Z4 {, Z( A* }2 mWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.' f% }+ i- A+ w
- 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., x3 ^4 s% p$ E9 [% R
- Anonymous: s( N: u  D2 Q& [; _

. {5 i% N9 R, I! I& XThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
) N% {  O" i+ ~3 D, q- Margaret Thatcher
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: A( l* ^+ Z; K) wThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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; u- }* z! I4 H! m# [The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.; K: P. t. w& }/ W. h" _% l3 A
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
7 U8 F+ {; P. ~7 q8 n1 E- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899% E0 M1 r* b1 R  B" ]: \7 l

7 P: }2 I! A7 nGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
, N) s; d( y% j  A0 i- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.( a$ r% S' @8 Q5 K; v* N
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- u; P3 V) D( z- Gregory Benford
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' |! j/ ?) ?1 y+ w0 C- l* M% ANever let a computer know you're in a hurry.( b) m. C; G/ e; M
- Anonymous
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) ^/ i6 m6 `) U. OA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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) n- g& W7 X6 RI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- h! y& V# a& C2 }, r" K- Thomas Edison; w+ a6 m* f: S3 B& M7 K& D

6 {) ?; [+ x( M1 LGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
, ]/ C+ j/ K% _  i) m- 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& |- W( l& |9 `
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
$ s3 r8 |) ^1 A1 j9 N& Y& k- Senator Bob Dole: k6 ]5 E4 W$ k+ w$ P# Q
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.7 i  `% d" z1 `3 ~  {
- Popular Mechanics, 19496 c( x) q! h6 m% ^
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
$ I3 i0 _5 ~6 |5 g$ ^- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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- O( C7 l: S8 FTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.9 [2 z. {! B, R- r0 `/ F7 R6 v" @
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.: c" o, n( ]& f" `. Z# N
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
  F3 T' A5 O* K- Al Gore on Y2K5 v5 U$ ?6 {2 l' @7 V

' @: |  ]" R# O5 z# W2 W0 [' g5 WThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
3 d+ H$ E* F( i6 l- p- Sydney Brenner in 1927  x! z/ T' |. V5 W! w3 |* x

  K2 E# j* j' V& u- a: v5 `2 Y; aThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." u3 S" i- m) j. K7 j! L/ J4 D
- Linus Torvalds
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3 d( O0 j) \3 y5 WTo 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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" ?: }* K' P8 i5 G9 z  }Windows is just DOS in drag.
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+ j; w, W0 G3 \6 P( J1 {There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
  {4 [1 D) m7 u/ f4 A; y) e7 I- 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.
. V( g7 m0 j) I! W+ K3 V3 @- Thomas Edison; L) \2 }3 l+ i$ l  \

+ L. v7 F5 }1 y8 gEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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