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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.0 _& t% D, q. c. i9 p# }( C- F
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum- p5 g- B# Y6 k( w2 |8 V. K. W

! \2 C4 Q: O( S9 dWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
/ q, ]. i. t0 o- @0 ~5 t- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
! P, `7 U& p6 j0 E+ r- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981: x- D. X6 N% l, D% F

$ p0 s  ^. G" f  bThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.& I! T( T& H2 e3 H% C
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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.+ g" t7 l4 G$ i& v
- George Pompidou) {1 Y* R# i- U! S6 x( Z) M

! G) E# L) z$ n. c1 m1 vTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.' C6 h& l( S2 @- G5 G
- Anonymous
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6 c% s- e0 r' O* L5 i6 KFor 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.4 ^0 ^1 A& o2 H+ M5 n* ?
- Anonymous/ r8 ?1 d  ^5 Y$ M' P, @3 a0 Y

, y5 z- H0 k; d6 l6 s: f1 X: k( wComputers 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.( t8 u$ U% l% _' z
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.6 c0 f! A  X6 I: Q0 O. }' E. j$ J
- Richard Power! s! u/ d  f/ k1 \9 I. z+ T
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
$ R/ l4 P' D4 m1 B- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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; e* j* S8 ^) n" t* H) M1 ZIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.1 B, e' E7 x5 |9 H- E, X! o" Z1 w% Y
- 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.
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% X$ T2 f1 a$ A" d+ x! LIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
0 a( ]! X4 |& t5 c0 m& v1 B- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business." Q- r6 R4 P, P7 Y, U7 P
- 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.. C3 W; G9 d: m$ f; m5 ?4 H" s
- Anonymous
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' @4 _0 l7 U7 L# {3 {* rThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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) a& W6 |+ t* m2 x( W; V( MOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.4 l- }/ J* c9 U5 L$ U- h
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.# R/ H% O+ I/ i& e+ q! H' V- }) A5 ]0 h
- David Thornburg
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& X' O( L- P% s. J0 \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.: w( D1 s$ a  ]! d  S: F/ q
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Save early, save often.
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Build early and build often.' `! C( z( ?" Q6 C7 {( v/ A0 u
- Proprietary developer adage
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1 g" i/ t: G% eRelease early and release often.
! m+ D" k3 q+ E3 d% u- 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.
; O. ]# x) r  ^# y3 J$ q+ H& a; S- Carl Sagan# g" u8 U; p% s% v
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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.2 n0 B/ N9 X/ P" k% `: F: W
- Anonymous
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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.
) \" H0 H4 U7 C0 i1 L0 F/ U! r8 U- Margaret Thatcher+ m7 O* \7 G- }# |$ d

1 e* N. L- n5 }! S% IThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.6 v. ]- F3 t7 l7 i4 e+ x
- Jerry Olson3 a5 n$ x" H6 }; m
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
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3 g4 Z& s; T# M: L8 d- n6 U. D4 M0 iEverything that can be invented has been invented.
) w' A1 L  c5 D* H) r7 i- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18998 W- i/ F  _8 g- s' }
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT2 L# ]2 g) B) u) B
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969, Y) @  q' j/ _+ z4 f1 ]3 f- S: R

; B$ E% X" N/ }5 u/ T3 nAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
1 m8 W- }9 D9 f) U- Arthur C. Clarke
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. |1 C  R% L0 Y% u) B- c5 \3 uAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
, C+ ]9 Y2 w' X7 s0 n: @- Gregory Benford
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% F1 j" Z$ ?0 p+ ~* Y/ w/ LA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.+ I8 w! i( r7 q) p& M" Y1 |' F3 p
- Alan J. Perlis( W/ N6 L$ ?7 N0 b4 q4 l
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
6 c" W7 J* S- M( l3 Q6 ?* U- Thomas Edison5 O  J$ k6 U6 |0 {
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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.
6 F5 T8 V, D5 d9 N5 l5 G- 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 developed8 h7 x5 ^& ~, ^; c1 _1 F" y' V
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
* a2 A0 v8 C/ A% W! f- Senator Bob Dole) h& l8 [! x/ w( o! b8 H; |+ C! l0 w

3 Z" i: z7 Q& J; x% YComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
2 O# D0 h; b0 e, C# Q% p+ X# o% B- ^- Popular Mechanics, 19492 A% U. I" r. @& n8 q4 h1 e3 E! M
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.0 s* ^' l9 q& w2 V
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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$ `- [& v; k  D: T/ ]& WTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
3 E3 T. U( ~, s# u. J- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
: m& J# F; X1 I# e# k. b- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos5 U" z; E( c  [$ e2 f; X  f

, M/ G! l5 q, R% A% ^How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?3 k9 L6 c3 I0 z4 }
- Al Gore on Y2K& u, x, m9 C" C, N% e! F
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.' `: S$ x5 Z/ F
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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& o+ ~0 `- g* o( NThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
( @" K( B% a7 p( r+ S( {7 s8 L1 |- G- Linus Torvalds$ _; k, k( u, F5 v: y/ j; ?  V

: s" _$ ?4 W$ X' @+ i7 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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* B" j  V. t( {5 tThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
* f0 K0 a8 O2 w$ A) q8 B# w- 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.
1 K' `; l+ V! d: P/ G- Thomas Edison
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3 c4 c3 y' a  m9 _Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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