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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.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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6 q) t: n! v: A  F6 t, M( t9 C0 j640K ought to be enough for anybody.$ d8 @: L( t4 m; `5 w  ^' O. y+ {' x
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981& L! r; F+ `7 E1 H

- m' Q  \9 n2 M& nThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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  o  v4 @4 ]& v1 I: aThere 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 q& ~$ B* t) z/ q# V- George Pompidou
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2 I' z" i- s0 y8 N4 TTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.! e0 S8 Y6 \1 X7 Y9 X  ?! ?! M8 T
- Anonymous
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. K+ k" m& x+ m" x3 f/ AFor 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.' L/ A5 [- a- ~% i( x$ I
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& m4 p1 e1 Q6 r6 k/ N5 n3 l9 cComputers 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.
  l3 z1 k8 A; ~$ r! [4 f( m/ K- Andy Rooney
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) f# Q  U4 {0 K6 MIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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: Z; g, ?5 E" SI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
2 e& T" ^: P2 e9 }; L% X- U- 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.
% ?4 _4 w* G9 r- Scott Adams
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3 S/ Y$ `' m# L/ ZIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
, h6 u  a2 M6 L7 Q! n% _9 `- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.$ F+ |; r* U4 c* ^: Z% B2 \$ }: i8 ]
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
* S+ N' M% l* b5 v0 l- 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./ Q- l: P  Q+ _" L8 |
- 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.4 Y& z3 u; R$ w7 a/ k7 V
- Jeremy S. Anderson. l, d: z! t( s' L

3 Z+ S+ {, x! x: N, BOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
/ G+ O6 a* J# d0 `  V. l- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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. b7 a* M( S% K7 l3 @" aThose 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.! i! d. C' W! \8 v
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
  p9 C5 t' S( u: |. V& R- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
" i! |* X* W" Z" i) L3 u- Open source developer adage( G% J% y4 s/ M9 T) J/ y& m! U
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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.
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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.- v0 h% k3 e' ^  t6 l( J+ r
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.3 L4 P5 |% X% R. h9 B$ b1 }1 p
- Jerry Olson
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* u; y6 ~) h) ]& nThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.& h. F6 T: q/ V9 J& O' ~; z% H8 \
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.5 [! ^' `5 |. I2 B1 f. ^3 n5 f
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899) I4 `! e7 R6 h, _6 z; B" r5 a

) ^9 t  c  N* i9 C" ?- [GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
) @# }0 s) S8 S) J1 X$ O' {" H: M- Fairchild Research and Development, 19690 s, p! c+ ^! \5 L) j
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.# K: ^3 Y! n7 p$ ]
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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3 J4 {2 E! k/ I7 b& K. kA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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. s/ \5 v: j4 X* gI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
$ D" K* S2 \# B: F( V; w- Thomas Edison
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; m/ H3 \* v6 D5 \4 P; J" Z) @Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.3 ?4 Q* t- E" M" e
- 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.
7 ~: l: P3 T% X8 N& d; `0 n0 a/ l2 g- Popular Mechanics, 1949) i$ S5 e: x. A' b  n* Y

% g7 ^, d; X8 H* v From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.2 D( t) U& S* ~8 U$ y9 V
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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7 E% e/ `7 d9 F$ U5 u, t& r9 d* [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.; z/ G8 g  E9 {( O5 T  E6 C
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos% S2 L4 O: b, ], l

: x* N$ s7 p! ~9 i) V  x' THow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?; b  w; U; c* t) @( Z
- Al Gore on Y2K
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; \3 _4 I1 v; o( M0 c( H% y2 ?The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.5 U. e7 N6 e+ c4 p
- Sydney Brenner in 19270 \6 s" N" v  F3 X. D, O
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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 b- r; q5 n- a$ r. [! F) D
- 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.
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: h: `7 O- A! s+ Y- q6 E8 tWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
: i  y- n' r* s, \3 u2 ]  r- 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.
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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