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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.
" _5 m# m2 ]* G$ n' o8 ]- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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% d$ S/ {, w* ?: DWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?$ s, m, p9 n( Q) H5 ]" N
- T.S. Elliot$ Z9 S( F! h2 r5 c# f* t' I7 `
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- p' j! T1 c" _: F- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981# c$ k, L- s+ H, D6 ]  O
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.3 L; ^$ m6 _' K8 Y
- B. F. Skinner1 e' ]( S* a# O
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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./ n1 h, G6 S& U7 H; Y
- George Pompidou
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  O. H! D1 [" q, kTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
* @: p- a: d: z# `# r- Anonymous
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+ ]7 `+ z' F9 X5 R0 \7 RFor 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 x" `( K8 [8 j; B. T3 {& ]0 E- Anonymous
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. ?" ?( U& p- [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.
- d0 W! G3 g/ }# F- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.* _+ d8 C9 v2 s* h5 p0 f
- Richard Power7 l" u! i# a4 j9 Z' N6 v1 e4 [

' a1 F# e6 c0 }0 W6 f! |: R  cI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.. _& g: l+ z  l& g8 A3 d
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19437 \% x0 M' c' L6 S/ L# G+ C6 D: e0 K
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.2 h9 X/ @/ I6 w
- Scott Adams4 G' W; R/ {2 d+ |' H4 {

  P' f. |. ^4 C4 ?: t% bIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.7 r3 o' Y" ~% e
- Anonymous3 M; o, v& b( F+ ~3 N! K' s9 x

: ]5 Q8 s  }1 P3 iIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
& t- m' z" a) f4 k7 j. D9 Z+ ~- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.% k- e2 f' y6 M1 W+ o& y. q# W
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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, t* K! x, h( g3 I% hAt 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.
- ^# c2 u" `/ ]8 Y- Jeremy S. Anderson
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8 y6 y( G: t% w0 {" _: `. EOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
+ K" z, W8 |3 }/ S- Elbert Hubbard
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4 ~  W, v: Q3 _8 cAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
4 N* `' N- k1 F( O  P- David Thornburg% W% q" a4 M- ^; W* T  h( t: }& L. p
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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.
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8 h* v0 ~% f9 C* \Save early, save often.3 w3 Y: S* j/ A! a1 W* X! P  [
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- D& o' K- X4 E7 o( N$ N- Proprietary developer adage, {0 x0 m+ g7 Z! t' t

, `( x, p; Y; ?" o0 l" j$ L" a2 ARelease early and release often.
# b) @" f7 y: i) B" y- Open source developer adage0 h: t, p* j- A! c0 o

: w+ K/ \# E4 X$ n' q2 AWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.# r* Z# N) H; S$ y3 \
- Carl Sagan
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* F5 I( j7 ^' c+ ]% c3 j& G% |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.. @: w- w" f# F" L: F: E) ]
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6 }8 W/ @- |' T2 T% }There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
5 J, L9 ^. M* w( P- Margaret Thatcher. ^: p- Q9 t* t; @6 a' s
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
! k8 j- d( r+ x+ y& g2 [- Jerry Olson9 `/ U$ H6 \; d4 p2 T1 o

% q# r, u/ L$ M& P7 D% yThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.9 I& R( c1 ^! n. s: k" g
- Porterfield
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7 L! ]& ~: L& X' `. GEverything that can be invented has been invented.
* O' _. E4 k' J3 i9 S- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT. y7 h' R$ z: I3 z7 C1 D$ {
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.( p  {7 I# C$ s; N/ o- R- u8 ?8 \
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
$ C+ t6 W, u# W- Gregory Benford# {. v# f* l- ^6 ^6 v, B

2 |6 }3 F' n0 lNever let a computer know you're in a hurry., E( e1 u* d1 ?1 h$ M" W9 H" u
- Anonymous
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7 t( L* x0 G! @A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
' D, t& K5 T% G" l2 x. q- Alan J. Perlis; Q# S  }- ~9 [1 h3 t$ k
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
4 t1 t& x) E' B; @6 k) O; l- Thomas Edison
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0 I7 s. P7 {* C+ c0 t. fGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.  a+ n4 Z6 p3 p) y
- 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) }! i1 }2 N4 q+ F$ \
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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- Y$ n9 j; p* y& D. QComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.$ p: `+ t4 E1 u2 y* e' w6 Z
- Popular Mechanics, 1949$ q  p# R$ k/ I

+ t' p' a- Q9 y' r5 G9 `6 b6 t) v From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.$ p& x  x8 C7 N- a/ t8 R; r1 F( A
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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9 }+ J8 Q% t: A+ r" |$ ITechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
8 ]- d* e5 k- I' m8 H- Andrew Heller, IBM7 r: |/ S1 d+ o) t7 m1 O, k
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
* w! E4 J/ n9 x: w6 q; U( w" \- 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?3 Y* g9 s; U/ P0 X2 |2 G8 U
- Al Gore on Y2K
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1 Y) Z0 Q0 s; _# Z  {" VThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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/ h+ b7 u/ m3 oThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
* X; X) @  W( H& q$ [- Linus Torvalds
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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., @& G* p3 G3 N' R! {+ t8 ]
- Linus Torvalds% `$ n/ l1 u9 }/ L$ p

; o( a" _* e- e) cWindows is just DOS in drag.* l. h' s- L. |) B' f
- Anonymous
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, |) }5 b2 f+ VThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
6 N- K) q( q6 t+ {5 Q- 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.
( b  @0 n' b- M. b- Thomas Edison
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$ [1 g1 m, k7 E* hEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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