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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., ^# I( R$ `" C7 m; @0 x
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?" S5 n1 s" u" ^1 P' S& a# S+ B( l
- T.S. Elliot# b3 C: ~! U! _; t5 Z( q

5 `1 L1 l4 q( e/ Z# k+ A640K ought to be enough for anybody., M1 w: H- d# z, t/ K4 G- M4 J0 ]* g
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981" R6 J3 D; D5 S/ n2 ^
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
1 m; K( }7 P0 g- 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.5 ^$ F5 b* U$ r! j5 p
- George Pompidou
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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.
2 H- ~/ h" v9 F4 O- Anonymous
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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.1 F- e( ?8 l" t/ ?
- Anonymous: _" x$ q- x# n- ^+ E
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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.
) u  G. ]! ^* @- Q" \& X- Andy Rooney
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3 t/ ^6 |5 U3 X  B  x& w( qIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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0 o, {5 u4 Q4 V  VI think there is a world market for maybe five computers., k9 {" j: R& l8 U# d: t' e
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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' t0 Z! g4 D. }If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.- V& ~& y! X* p# N7 l
- Scott Adams
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  t! f- @% R& S2 P$ u9 {5 RIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.' b7 k3 _2 Z/ t1 ]" m
- Anonymous, |$ U- \! ]( w  d" W5 v- p# Y; F0 q

2 r' m1 [; l2 x! b" c) R. sIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.8 [8 M) w+ E" ~6 r3 E5 }* N
- Bradley's Bromide
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6 R, d0 P9 y; u2 Q5 s/ h. `The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
5 S/ J/ V2 ~: d7 t* f9 k- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric6 ]9 y2 B' U1 ~$ R. Y5 K

- c/ j8 V8 f/ O8 B5 bAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.+ ]; ]4 o) S% D; s. ^! f
- Anonymous
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# q  ]1 m0 D* DThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.4 ]8 _* A7 A, u3 E2 ]% ^& k: V0 q3 c7 m3 U' X
- 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.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.& r" `$ X% A; J* k
- David Thornburg
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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.
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Save early, save often.+ T7 m2 J- }& z% h
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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; I7 l: M  X0 e; u# w& aBuild early and build often./ I3 T; q' `( [4 U( l, l% f0 Z
- Proprietary developer adage
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5 r. ~  f5 [/ n& d$ XRelease early and release often.
$ ?, I3 L- y5 Z7 B- Open source developer adage
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" b2 f( J+ Q" s8 N# J/ }- g. PWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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.
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! D" c! N4 A# q9 h9 WThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
3 t& _% X: Y; n" Z% [- Margaret Thatcher( |: x' D$ v: u: _$ y1 v+ v$ a

3 H9 j3 t& p# @: `The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.& o! u/ q' w0 b  ]3 j8 x2 X& L
- Jerry Olson
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1 E" c3 q% r  h; F% ~2 S% pThe 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." f! u. [3 P/ _2 [6 b; S9 k
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
" m; j9 n' k" v% U- K) j$ {8 d- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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+ v3 Y# I6 y( b7 Z$ C/ Z& |Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
1 m4 E# w  v  G* u  D& Z- Arthur C. Clarke* O" x) g, |7 C5 ~$ H
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- Gregory Benford5 J% D; q7 j% r0 J% U$ s

! M3 y7 I, y0 j/ YNever 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.
. I$ W# r7 R1 }; o1 @# T$ O- Alan J. Perlis
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6 u3 x) h+ o$ k8 @, t  yI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.5 u8 Z0 ~, [( F8 \! N; s5 _5 @
- 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.; c- r- k# H' N1 ]  |
- 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* ~% W: S9 M2 N' v1 z$ K0 u* ?, _+ B
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
! z8 r0 B( V1 f+ h* {( p- Senator Bob Dole
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% M* a7 P# U5 M- g( S- y" zComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
+ e; {) a# `$ v5 a" p( Y) j- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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$ v8 U: @2 y8 Y3 \9 M! {# q+ g From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
6 U! H- R7 V, S% J1 t7 D& s2 M- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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' J5 C- `- n- S8 ?3 |9 \Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.: u" x3 w; @* Z+ H
- Andrew Heller, IBM  o  S2 J" Y5 `$ o; r- i: z/ J

( p# T/ B/ w. C$ \AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.) ^9 Q6 w0 Z# }8 x5 V8 d4 ^# i( S3 S
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos! \% l7 n! n/ n
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?8 ~/ S" n8 w1 k3 H: c4 a, H4 ^
- Al Gore on Y2K
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, M- [; I4 j# }' s% S# P$ g9 dThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
( x% i" K# ]( g* M) H5 m% \, p- Sydney Brenner in 19275 P( u3 i; i3 l  k+ b$ Y; l3 E
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
3 M" h, ~! R, n8 F0 [8 N- Linus Torvalds" A8 F0 c- {+ _3 E
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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.8 N' x2 `1 b0 J0 F  m7 c4 e
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5 a9 L3 Q' K! j. o$ z. vWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
5 R' N5 v" t, X) 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.. R( V  Z5 T4 N6 X2 A0 E; x' X8 I
- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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