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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 a( |8 @' F4 V) u/ V- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
# w! y: b+ u* n- T.S. Elliot
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) p& e$ b3 S& d" P- p1 c640K ought to be enough for anybody.
9 h5 N, r6 j+ I! y- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19812 M* e! A' L/ w

. g; a& Y7 A- `/ [: G2 p! dThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.
' k, z3 a3 U1 l9 |7 Q- George Pompidou
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# K/ I$ T6 k% J  s2 G  d+ 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.
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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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: d5 P6 e! P! a. J$ p8 dComputers 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.' L/ i# }2 V3 Y- Y; a& p1 m1 E5 p
- Andy Rooney* J: K- Z% k2 M4 [4 h( e

0 m# `8 _+ u2 ]6 e7 ^In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.0 _/ N, B- P; O6 ^
- Richard Power
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4 r$ F+ E* d. O9 i" x* k( d" q3 uI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.$ V6 ?! q5 W" A! B
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19433 M5 ~' f' ]9 |3 P0 X
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.) q" H9 |; U" J0 m) `: L$ ~
- Scott Adams# U. ?$ W2 l1 C/ ^7 @, r% m* |

6 Y; T. g0 W* m" A3 o5 M, o6 LIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
0 l/ S) F: G! m- Anonymous
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: V2 S2 ?& K( d/ ^3 U+ n- XIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.3 {# A, O7 M) f( P' f/ U0 l) N
- Bradley's Bromide- ^6 i: @7 w3 P# ?1 k8 B

# {' A+ {  Y8 S3 a7 tThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.6 w1 X5 p2 s$ D
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric, A! ?! w6 q9 k) I7 _7 g! i6 F& P  o
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At 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.
9 D; @( A2 n+ P6 g" k- 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.
* i" s# o# G5 L! ]- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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2 i# I- W$ t7 B# T8 rThose 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.& K7 d, `# q3 w3 `* d" ^. e
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.$ R2 c  Q" d7 E& J4 H. r4 U# |
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.# B" H" k: ], S
- Proprietary developer adage8 i+ C8 R8 Z: a  u% w
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Release early and release often.
1 d9 ^( q/ b7 N" Q- Open source developer adage7 T- q! N7 M' @- q7 j
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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.; ~9 _' ]3 q: r6 q' c
- Carl Sagan( E6 m' D# ]" r7 z8 q- q

$ A  b; Q0 ^5 q' k' d. ?- b9 A! G, ZIf 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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7 g5 x- `% c1 l2 V$ qThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
  J5 M. a5 V( a3 U4 o- Margaret Thatcher
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2 N4 P$ M8 Z( I" p9 b5 P" mThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
# S4 Z) Q0 a+ R' o* Y4 A* y; d4 j- Jerry Olson
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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.- k; B8 ^6 V: l+ E3 _- F2 X
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.. Q1 }2 x4 @2 A# A
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899" ]* L- R3 r/ r3 X& ]! V8 y

1 H7 l* s" x* cGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT- z, }& C  |' `
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969% [1 E3 \+ r4 x
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
' H; A% P. o) N9 n* D- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
! n: Z$ z/ ~& g  Q- d$ b. s- Gregory Benford) i7 Q. `# C* ?& f2 u% ?

; k! y2 }. l) H$ g; ^- u$ B% Y8 oNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.% Q; {: W% B: i; B/ S$ v
- Alan J. Perlis
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  k# }  M, g- v5 b: jI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.  T5 o  E& m2 ~9 _! t* R. W0 D" E. L
- Thomas Edison& u! P! H) J) n) H- e

7 ~% e. Q6 D5 ~Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.0 z0 G) T" {5 X4 P
- 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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# Q' w! M7 V& C0 ~6 U7 S" gThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
, h! f) f4 e( J5 z; ]- Senator Bob Dole
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' R5 c$ W7 D: E( m  R3 \, ^& F8 iComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
; z3 f- n5 B/ c3 O/ }- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it., B8 ^3 u( q/ b7 @# Y( ~8 i4 [
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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8 @8 j5 t. W5 h, e" rTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.5 ?0 ]4 e! I3 U& e7 W8 V+ ?  q
- Andrew Heller, IBM0 m/ ]$ A2 X3 m' Z$ ^
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.5 p0 Q+ D' g" i2 s
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos& S+ L" V4 q, Q
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?1 d& ^* N' n% \' X
- Al Gore on Y2K
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7 l( ]; s8 l/ A1 x; KThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
6 B5 W: u/ V$ Q' L- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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* w2 S9 E& H+ b8 mThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
( O! M& i4 \" a: J0 G! q  @- Linus Torvalds( n9 k4 @4 P5 O8 F

# k2 S! C, V/ B8 ~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." {2 i% N2 L0 N- J" W6 [; O( \
- Linus Torvalds
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* V- h* ?  q/ _0 [5 [Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
. Q1 M- L# o+ Y' z1 U6 k- 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.5 Z0 d3 a  S9 ?
- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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