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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.
# K+ w9 u/ _. \- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
6 s4 H) U' Y7 q+ D* e0 k5 w- T.S. Elliot
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4 ], ^: g6 F# @3 g0 p: Y640K ought to be enough for anybody.
8 D9 T0 m0 ^/ `' [4 Z, G# q! I( w) H- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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: C: V: W4 X) EThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
; P4 ^  y9 b$ P' L5 [$ \  E- B. F. Skinner
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+ r; K' N$ H/ P6 B, {( |% T1 XThere 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.. w8 ?# n, l$ p; {4 ?7 h* s
- George Pompidou' X1 u* p( B  o' f: S. \. s: o

5 }+ f7 I* h- n( ?: T# OTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.* O$ Q) {2 F, q( d
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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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$ O. W. y% S2 ^( e6 Y" j% U; 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.
! ^3 l' {8 ~, t+ M: O. a1 R1 P- Andy Rooney
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" g2 |' n3 i3 L+ oIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers./ j5 y( N  J: \5 @* M5 ^, J+ L: @- O2 I
- Richard Power
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1 l; u$ w0 n; E7 i2 ]4 ?9 FI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.7 |0 ~7 C8 g+ f3 ~1 B1 }
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19436 u4 y. x. _; m5 N- f# T

/ @+ Z' h. n# U4 L; |2 P. e* G! oIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.) d! K, x5 z9 G
- Scott Adams
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.0 z/ e# ~9 r4 f! M% X! s/ k
- Anonymous/ a- x1 \) X" |. R

: O9 E* i! Q% J3 D* eIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.: u; Q- [1 M. F3 B& p
- Bradley's Bromide
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$ H/ ~; q# j( [$ U) [The Internet is the Viagra of big business.1 z2 u6 E' t$ c% B
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric& j7 f* Y& K- O/ w* p0 d6 v& w
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.. g2 U/ l; t' t8 G/ R
- Anonymous
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0 D9 X- I6 S# v/ h! K$ V& vThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
8 X+ A. P9 J* C/ Q. }- 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.
4 F" O3 S5 ~$ p- Elbert Hubbard
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" x. X# B& V8 @" t/ ^% ~9 cAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
0 M- ?. Z' \5 p( u4 ]+ I& J( e) o" H- David Thornburg
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% m9 X) F5 k+ f6 a) d7 ^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.- e& L) O' r0 E$ h" B- ]& S3 w- x
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
5 _5 ^; H+ W5 ^- g- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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4 X( d! D1 j, O* FBuild early and build often.
* o. V  L/ ]8 N8 `6 d4 W2 v& d- Proprietary developer adage0 l8 C1 [/ ?4 W6 u! m

3 z3 U% ?- z% \( a: r. CRelease early and release often.$ \! X. u+ m6 L3 N- Z
- Open source developer adage( w7 Z- Q0 }( L  M) g( u/ h% X

" Q: R$ E- B& D+ O5 u% PWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.& Z  r& @5 W. I* z- O( t
- Carl Sagan
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; A. s- |7 E4 A- _: g6 `/ @; FIf 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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! l' s6 m. M' g' y1 F9 j3 R+ RThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.) L' E9 q- E  Q( Z
- Margaret Thatcher) u" L6 w7 x& X- J5 o

9 U. ~+ x# l3 D; U8 U5 R) \/ t4 QThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
7 w- ^& [5 `7 x2 s4 N- Jerry Olson. T1 M, k/ ^" R7 Z: @& B4 |6 X

% P* L3 ^- K" ]6 n+ @3 V) lThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.8 r* ?) m  D8 |3 c, p! A' W
- Porterfield
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2 G7 z5 b5 r8 |" p9 d# M' N8 wEverything that can be invented has been invented.
( p8 e( Q3 J: k3 }( g0 O2 P- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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; k3 P1 d9 v/ V! c3 r. E2 m: u4 [GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT& K3 s' C* Q) p0 R- @, w
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969, _- M: j# I+ s. }/ e6 f2 {
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.7 J2 q/ t- U$ h* B2 M# u
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
+ D* ^, s& T1 k* c- Gregory Benford) |& b/ ?3 ?- P" O* h5 F5 F" `: w, ]
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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4 t% x" Y0 X! U- w; X8 E0 tA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.4 T) Z9 p% E4 J
- Alan J. Perlis
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, N  ^5 D! D6 e# o& }2 m2 NI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
/ G. ~5 ?& `( j) O: b  z& [- Thomas Edison
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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.0 c+ Q- e( h- z" b5 k
- 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( f% G! g4 {0 s! [1 y0 ?

8 x' Y% Z- S. j( m! d# ?; _# dThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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4 G( X! k+ c# F8 jComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
2 _0 K9 U) i' I9 M1 F- Z- Popular Mechanics, 19493 B) n: i4 O  H1 U
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.% f2 D. D0 X; H9 d, G# @9 t+ S9 K$ G8 F
- 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.
7 F. W" ?% C# I) q3 }( H- Andrew Heller, IBM
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1 c+ m4 x: ]5 u, M% tAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.  n1 j% h, W8 I9 l2 V' b& W
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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7 d: W3 E- B" C1 m2 ^3 x8 a2 iHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?# C( Y$ M  d- `9 t9 \
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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$ B& B# ~/ b2 q- PThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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: [: ^8 [0 {- u& H/ W6 ^$ H' bTo 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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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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5 D: q4 I& L; ^: aThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.9 R9 ^: @  ^: y6 U+ C
- 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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/ O* f3 M, s9 z8 kEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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