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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.) M) P7 V; H, z, T, q& D0 s7 O
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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2 l' t5 c% |8 L: |; |Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?& @; `  q7 D$ a9 M
- T.S. Elliot
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0 Z7 \9 r- a8 w  r% Y640K ought to be enough for anybody.* d5 I3 D" a6 ]4 [: v+ u- e
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981: u! E3 q* d" q0 ?: ?# X  J

! D4 B( k9 K9 r8 }3 b) C! h+ p' G0 |The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
5 N* e  ]6 ~5 R# o0 i" ?- B. F. Skinner
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9 `/ S" L% L$ `/ }: bThere 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.' G  h5 m! M- T# N9 F3 y6 K
- George Pompidou% c4 T/ a4 O" u7 y7 |. I9 Z
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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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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.6 S6 C: K  Y  ^+ ?+ [& N+ R
- Andy Rooney+ l7 `# W$ ~5 P* h& G9 t5 G4 w+ k4 T1 d5 O
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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.- x2 {1 Y! z7 O
- 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.' J9 W1 u1 E+ u
- Scott Adams
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$ B/ n$ q# P. ]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.( `& t( ~1 Y/ t
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 R$ ?* |0 S) w! K' U" i- 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.+ M* X. V% ^- o% y- y' h
- Anonymous* W# o. p1 J# P
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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 L4 W6 E" l, f2 v; i# r
- 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.
" Q$ a0 h) m8 n* N& G2 I- Elbert Hubbard( x; X' o7 m% R1 q  R

! E6 [( _' [/ q2 ^7 g, ]Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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' x5 M, p4 S- N2 S" I; \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.
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Save early, save often.
2 V* `4 K$ L! U) C8 i' j3 q- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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7 T3 H1 d- b" Y3 L: P) @Build early and build often.8 z+ p7 w) d, Q: b: Y  G
- Proprietary developer adage7 [0 d+ J  U9 t
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Release early and release often.
. J9 q( ~1 J( ^1 ]( a- 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.( ~- q9 K! g% O$ D9 b# i. y: e4 ~
- Carl Sagan
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9 g* Q- `( t$ y& OIf 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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.- Q' F, L# L7 u$ ~9 B  F) y
- Margaret Thatcher
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) c+ q* c: Z/ cThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.$ M3 w- q, M7 H& [7 d
- Jerry Olson
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5 c( v& X  J9 f- CThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.2 q0 l/ R# W% A1 _
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.. K  v# K7 G8 q3 F
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
5 h# X1 o$ a' h- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969; o8 [3 O" v$ V+ `: m3 X0 f
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.2 g2 u6 a' ?5 N, n
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2 m- k+ i6 H; t; zAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
; o  R0 l1 t4 o8 v# F7 b- Gregory Benford
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. Q) j2 x9 K; sNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.3 j" B6 a1 W, a3 l% W
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( F/ t* h, v6 r* @A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.0 [& [6 A7 J3 ^2 P4 d; q
- Alan J. Perlis) Z  X2 m) i: N8 a2 O
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.; X/ |* L9 I  e9 v( ]
- Thomas Edison( K2 ^; ~5 C" D! S% r3 Q9 ~
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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." `$ u6 k  d2 ^) C6 H5 V% S
- 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.' o3 g% v9 {$ _5 [% p  p
- Senator Bob Dole& Z. `- {- M. b
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.( y# o- i7 S- L! Q8 V& N, \
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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& _7 Z9 w6 V9 r+ B From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
* K0 R7 b* h$ b# I/ |/ |; T- 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.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.: u1 A$ h" C+ B& _% `
- 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?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.5 l. Q6 X" w  g+ U6 ~
- Linus Torvalds
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$ A6 u9 w& Z; [7 u5 m- 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 d* B5 h# ^& R9 n1 sWindows is just DOS in drag.* G5 p; s" e! i7 g/ D8 o- q0 ]: S
- Anonymous
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0 }' }. L6 h3 o  UThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
% R( k) i5 O9 u1 f4 G- 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.
! Z' ~5 T, ]$ `- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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