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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.6 C7 T- \  l! Z
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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- W, P  _6 L' k& T6 ]7 ~/ aWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?7 j6 i) F7 H/ s, ~0 I" x6 O
- T.S. Elliot
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8 ?! e! u) O' V: [7 s& Q640K ought to be enough for anybody.
% S  Q: Z7 X1 x- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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$ B" @' ]! N8 qThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do./ `7 G- s& U5 {
- B. F. Skinner
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. X2 H8 i8 q& jThere 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.1 y4 m* Q1 ~! N$ y) H2 w; ^
- George Pompidou% ^) X. ~) c0 i* P0 U9 M

  @' M" L* S6 Q. E6 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.4 E! P; }$ f% P0 m, k, g, P$ W0 {
- Anonymous
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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.1 T* }; G4 z  R9 |% b! H! P
- 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.5 e2 D8 x0 ^+ v% L3 D: ]% V/ r
- Andy Rooney4 J- b* V7 o7 z; R2 U. R* x
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.9 z, Z9 r& y0 ^) h7 p' o  M
- Richard Power6 t$ ]2 J! e2 b: e/ i6 O. a
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
! n: J, y  v8 F* G# l3 G  J" ?0 O! `- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943/ U+ E6 b- V9 P  L+ b  e0 u
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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( z+ h1 x( Q9 v3 W3 kIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.' h3 }  l& Y  T& k5 u& `
- Anonymous0 G0 _0 v0 T# {: z" O3 N8 J$ m
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
7 z' d6 s& E5 ]# J; v- Bradley's Bromide
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( o$ M' b& @" g9 H1 BThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.4 V: j) B; D* S- ^
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric# {) [8 O, I. j" u, [

, R* [& k* _, P' V4 F( r" lAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.+ @% G+ ~4 l# \1 w* w
- 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.* k" K: |$ b& S# W/ X1 [" ^
- Jeremy S. Anderson: Y2 t0 ^* c5 t0 C
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.4 m) Y- E8 T) M7 Y
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.6 t1 h8 M3 K: w6 Z& {
- David Thornburg
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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.
" @6 u* P, Q+ t* s- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.  v+ |% B5 q5 d$ l4 v
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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8 y9 g+ {; b1 `' D9 ]Build early and build often.
' V8 E6 J2 v1 K. ~" k+ v- Proprietary developer adage9 w! Q0 g4 m5 [7 j5 v
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Release early and release often.
; [3 }2 P! R1 O1 Z$ }- 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.
* B2 R- ^* E7 b+ f' g1 }- 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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
3 K% M8 a0 m' Y  F% h& p- Margaret Thatcher# X9 m1 \- R9 |  v2 ^7 ~* @

0 L4 p1 Q# z. `% _; c- x3 y/ C3 hThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.$ y9 m& {2 @% {  x9 L0 h
- Jerry Olson
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1 I8 o: O/ E9 V' e+ v$ T9 x  d% e; gThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.* G5 b# ~( u' Z+ k$ \. z$ z5 A
- Porterfield0 F# v& `: b) B8 w1 o
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.# v9 |6 V4 @2 X1 f; x, n2 O1 c0 ^
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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0 L& m: {' I1 L7 C7 F" p5 mGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT& O  W6 ~+ B( ?$ S- J$ T
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969* z/ R* S2 Q' m
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
4 e7 `4 G8 k  h9 u! q$ P- Arthur C. Clarke
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/ e8 r% @6 a6 W$ k, aAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.2 ]7 b8 s2 s# d6 {8 }
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.: v& z3 h$ i$ Z8 o
- Anonymous
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& C1 y+ E1 {5 N( b( uA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
/ T5 b$ _1 B- k& c1 u8 e- Alan J. Perlis; W# L9 U( C5 P' y. _

& u3 }1 U& m5 y$ _/ _I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: N" Y6 H2 i' s9 c- Thomas Edison- F# M( @# r8 g5 t/ g7 ^6 ?7 [7 r

& ^% P$ U  w+ w4 S1 |+ U3 mGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.5 G& ?& t0 L7 z9 L
- 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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& Z1 u7 o8 P& T1 k. y& R; ^The Internet is a great way to get on the net.6 {: {$ ?3 H$ h# h. {
- Senator Bob Dole
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  h+ U7 H' e6 s' R/ ?0 Y4 OComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
; K  q$ P$ d# V! a. R- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
. V! H- s  L- }" i4 ^* |- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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) q  W- F0 |) A# `Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- t: i% ]6 W8 n- Andrew Heller, IBM
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  a5 ~' O- K, N$ @. s' {AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.1 F8 g7 I+ g3 B) @# F# z! u
- 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?
/ y5 w3 Z  c2 O+ n- Al Gore on Y2K
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# |/ `  e0 m7 K- E  dThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.+ P& m/ ?# v/ i$ d6 k
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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) N4 }& {0 `$ rThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
3 Q( w1 R/ S- f. T- Linus Torvalds: p$ w! Y4 H) H% `5 }2 K$ p" z

- z) D. H! N  M8 [, HTo 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.) }1 S+ Y3 L# Y0 b, C# v8 O4 t
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- x/ l. w* L) |2 u8 a6 s* S$ r# NWindows is just DOS in drag.7 W4 }" Y; f- l% v
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
6 x- n! W2 l  j3 V* o- 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.+ ~. p) [6 ?5 p/ `  e
- Thomas Edison
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: [4 c$ U) S* S; L- Y0 U6 Z' ZEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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