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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 n+ M- ~) E. u) {6 f
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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( Y, f7 g$ }/ \7 |Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.7 s3 n3 i6 ?/ H8 R# W) o; f
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do., F+ i. e# V" n- ]! w
- B. F. Skinner
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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.
, F2 [' Q* r) p$ v2 t1 X- George Pompidou. p; W$ |1 T) l8 U& o
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Technology 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 U- ], O4 z0 M
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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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! H  F3 c2 ?5 @! E" }  j. xComputers 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.  A% \+ @" w5 z3 e- O. ?/ D
- Andy Rooney
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/ J6 ^/ {- f$ R$ X# \4 u- n5 y6 o9 pIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: h8 d& H1 U- K$ {# k% D- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.! Z: W! e, T% f$ d# l$ t4 I
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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8 Q- S6 C: l% e! \' ^) s7 PIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
. L1 K) U0 p" B- ]; y- Scott Adams
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) \8 Y4 ~% D3 [5 d1 i3 zIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.7 `" [4 Q! j! R
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.- E0 x! S$ h2 N
- Bradley's Bromide; r2 ], ^% J. ]1 @7 b& w7 l3 q) X

9 u, D6 e% F3 mThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.) o$ I5 o# a5 a  r* c
- 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." S& E; L  Q6 Q1 C" T
- 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 X: u2 i4 c+ ]0 t$ t1 i- Jeremy S. Anderson
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! k3 \4 x1 f* x2 YOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." u5 T" Z$ |) ]$ b# l5 K8 S; f, d) l
- Elbert Hubbard: Z+ F4 f3 s: y7 P/ J# `
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.! e2 w8 U, `) ~5 |
- David Thornburg
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/ ?, ^( Z" H; IThose 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.
$ s0 h4 B! F4 J0 j- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
+ `; U$ n& R, `: `- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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* b7 a/ J. ?9 ~  zBuild early and build often., \- B$ R- E* `. W, M1 w" ?
- Proprietary developer adage
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- Open source developer adage2 d' f  Q0 {* o1 \! g7 X: x$ `
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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.$ s  a9 o% _: @& ^$ a) J0 ^
- Carl Sagan
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5 N* J7 T) C+ TIf 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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6 v) B3 c9 @; e4 P1 N+ ?There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.0 B6 `0 a6 n. m, n" W
- Margaret Thatcher
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; w8 Q9 D  v( t/ ]. WThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.$ U& z" n' n8 k4 V
- Jerry Olson
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* n9 j  D+ r+ C7 R! ?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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.3 s8 r% x6 T* E& \: j
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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5 E: `, e2 D9 N& o! D7 nAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic., Z9 I- ~2 O; p& f0 r6 _
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
  ~8 h+ {% l1 E& }- i; j' V9 K- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.# w8 A  G! f! g
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God., k9 S# G8 b! o3 Y
- Alan J. Perlis0 c7 N1 t! I: v/ p* e" _" s- _

# G: n! N- W3 f) P8 ^' Y8 TI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- k& D( R$ C: F0 R7 r- Thomas Edison$ e. Q. j$ g( i8 v% l& v! m
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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.  U6 ?! V" P; f6 f; f. {0 u
- 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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) O& ]  V% R5 \0 Q5 V$ l& K6 YThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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0 l2 A1 [' |, `1 ^: dComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
; l! y& N3 X# t6 g* X0 S) d( j- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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; o) ^/ h) ^' ?/ |$ z- U From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
: D0 |; V3 e) R! r/ z- 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.% c1 B! }3 T; P' g- T1 w3 ~
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.- A5 s1 X! T+ C' s! ]
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos. e4 P$ a& \0 g' D
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?/ r8 n0 q$ y) Q8 p5 Z0 E9 a
- Al Gore on Y2K; V; y1 g# I6 ^7 O3 C
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
, V1 u: f$ x: W, d3 a/ a4 c0 C- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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; c( u5 c9 v7 c3 LThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
. Z3 d6 R& k8 c! T  b$ }- 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.$ X' {6 O, n: p3 E7 [3 s
- Linus Torvalds
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$ y7 T: v( D5 FWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.+ u& Y% z$ {7 O+ N8 n; H- G" ?
- 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.$ w. X% Q( |+ I
- Thomas Edison& P& @. d/ U- Z; [. E' {0 N& d3 c
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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