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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.
* p# J& K+ H+ j( C+ w+ V8 B- Andrew S. Tannenbaum, p6 U" G( W9 G, K9 c+ @+ I* X
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
9 \5 o& z( i) I& O0 k- T.S. Elliot- J4 s: Z' H% Z" x" n; ^( w

4 U  [/ @! r5 ?* z3 n1 F2 x640K ought to be enough for anybody.3 Y  |8 u$ V; m2 v
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19819 t! c$ m; _; e4 j. G/ j
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
, j5 h, J) s9 b- B. F. Skinner
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& m! ~" W9 V# jThere 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.
( a8 |9 e. }3 I1 X6 J* e, g- George Pompidou% Y2 k; r/ t4 H. ^! t5 Z' }* e

" E8 L9 U; J# dTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand., |1 n( u6 t- X& l  k
- Anonymous
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9 t$ Y0 f8 n( e: w+ F  {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.- t1 E8 o/ s3 x
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Computers 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.
! j; V; ^' R; f5 H, X8 [- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
  [+ ]% N8 I+ T$ j, [+ X9 a/ X7 Y1 u3 m- Richard Power
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3 H: G7 K& k3 u. t3 ^& DI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.  S% @1 e% T$ E4 {0 e* D5 B7 i
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943) r/ A+ J. z" C5 H1 X# U) r
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.9 u+ `. X- D$ _  j4 L  B  g! i
- 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.% D8 l% r  u) L( b1 a1 H- `
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.+ X! Y! b0 H5 Q! e5 y" Q, U1 k
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric% \3 @: W5 p+ y! ]

# E$ Z: I! O& u3 N' hAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
3 W6 e& ?6 w3 U. g& }2 u- 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.8 q' V# Y- R; `3 @& `$ w. @
- Jeremy S. Anderson3 x3 M) X( \' h

. \$ L& [: f3 {' {0 ^One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
9 c+ i! o, W% v! f- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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* E8 n& u& b9 X! K8 YThose 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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- }. i7 \6 b3 |! O) S) SSave early, save often.
/ O& k! ~" K2 p% v- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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$ O& y' m1 v) y+ p" d9 GBuild early and build often.
6 x( \; \2 t. B, K7 ~  c- Proprietary developer adage# ^6 g' y# }4 e! _1 \
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Release early and release often.) e7 k  [! V# a( j
- Open source developer adage
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' u' S. o- b. t3 p# vWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.$ N3 k, E( ]4 h. W3 x+ T
- Carl Sagan
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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.9 w$ C, n- i5 r3 Q: |" D
- 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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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* a4 m& R4 Y9 @0 T$ O4 YThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.! T1 `6 k5 w9 [! C! F
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.; [5 y9 D1 o5 Y/ F/ K
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899( z. v; U  l. B) j
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT% R6 t5 D! N8 p& {
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969  Z/ A1 G5 h- G4 |6 c0 r  D1 W6 J

7 j# y: M- C* W9 }* j. ~2 ]/ f$ xAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.0 Y# D) U; }6 D* V' @! [. A
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.% [+ A6 m: B  T2 G" Y. b
- Gregory Benford. A% S: g' [1 o% S8 Y. l7 [- ^

- r  S2 B; o* a: z. N+ k0 W, i) _# Q" PNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.$ O& r& E9 {( ?3 y
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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2 ?- @* `/ A# k/ p- \  TI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
6 {& ]6 ^9 d+ A- 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.
% r! k- h5 J' }5 ^7 T- 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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5 j" ^$ T; D5 H) aComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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( z. y$ H# B3 G. t+ [( wTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
! L, i8 u- d5 v4 C  C- Andrew Heller, IBM
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" U& y+ W; x( J! n$ M9 s! oAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive., P% Z5 `" j8 h4 a4 n
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos4 x! ~, x0 `4 q* w. l- Q& M; _
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?; @& ~8 O, O4 g4 N
- Al Gore on Y2K% J4 A) {) [5 R5 H* p) j

4 |1 z4 c' w- L7 qThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.5 z3 T$ z. X8 X6 q% W9 i: U
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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( k& d% X) _% CThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.) ]4 D1 [: p( q# y
- Linus Torvalds/ j, R( I7 X8 [& x; r
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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.
/ D7 b  C+ k4 W2 R5 x6 p0 |- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag., r* l7 D/ O! F5 W$ |- U
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' k- ]* s+ Z  n! Q7 f0 l. oThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home./ s$ ]4 P# g! _# y2 L1 Q2 {: f
- 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.; n+ ^. \1 Q4 c1 v
- Thomas Edison
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7 X* S4 p; H3 z8 n; k1 K/ Z' }Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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