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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., S1 k, l' q( l; Z) g6 T
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum% w# P2 N: K' y7 _& o

% M$ c6 N3 R; h1 l" bWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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  Q& B. S6 B/ G% O- l5 p640K ought to be enough for anybody.
% x8 B- |+ C* T% n' O- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981/ {9 ]" f* `/ G5 o2 B$ {
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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$ q$ I/ t$ e4 v' q, D6 K2 `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.2 ~; T$ E( K: C, T3 Q, {+ A& Z3 s
- George Pompidou' i- @8 y: _8 D8 q

9 a1 Y2 I6 X4 x- ^: gTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
% m8 m2 p) O! S! M- 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.) _$ h& N% v) H  C8 Q
- Anonymous
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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.
- K/ c* ^- M4 X: m3 z( g- [- Andy Rooney
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8 u. _3 n2 ?9 u( X2 dIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.; e4 R1 p, H* P- c% v4 X5 F. y) w
- Richard Power
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3 _; P' r3 h; g' w8 B. E: {I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.) A* p$ ]1 i( w4 c; J) e
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943* d# a& O1 S2 T

  X, W: r8 ]' m9 Z' e( [% k1 ~If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.( T5 B( x1 z+ \" }2 u6 U( X* b: m
- Scott Adams
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$ M# m4 N" g; m: X6 oIn 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.$ V2 b) |" u4 z9 ~  I. C6 P* l
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business./ _: I+ v8 M5 g7 l
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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' E7 B$ a" v" `: }* qAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.0 w, A) G8 O5 h5 |6 N  G
- Anonymous( p8 n0 Y$ l4 ^; G
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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.1 H- w$ T: V6 v' Z2 o2 @
- Jeremy S. Anderson! c# c  Y0 y3 z# R1 p- s
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.9 z4 W+ F6 }+ B' r0 Q! s1 D" M" o
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.' g: K: V2 H" ^' P; X
- David Thornburg
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% e7 P3 f$ C8 C2 i0 D% S7 I  K* NThose 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.
. N$ r3 y4 O2 o) a6 e- Anonymous
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Save early, save often., T6 Y3 m& T  n% ^1 \+ x6 e7 {. p: \
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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9 c+ A* Y+ y0 N, E% Y3 RBuild early and build often.
5 a9 ]1 p9 f1 O+ W9 Q, G" k% _( U- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often." v2 ]  t7 F, o8 D0 }( b
- Open source developer adage
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* `( V; `0 Z; ]% BWe 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.& {/ H. n( s: ?
- Anonymous
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# k! ^) l+ A4 ^4 B, L$ j+ RThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.! P8 ~1 U/ W* B- [' q& v
- Margaret Thatcher4 l8 e# ^" z$ y7 G

5 C1 D' B# o: w* L6 o4 q. Z4 H# EThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.7 n) A4 r5 m9 a
- Jerry Olson3 G$ u) A1 |) |- O6 W

* v2 d( g4 p5 o0 m* u$ \1 qThe 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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0 N+ Z; q% v& L7 h: B7 v: fEverything that can be invented has been invented.
7 e/ G1 W9 w8 C3 T  Y) \- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT+ |  r1 x0 L+ r( P6 j& m
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19694 u' Y" R' R/ ^+ \; G
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.: y/ Z; b3 N5 Y1 x2 |2 q$ x
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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6 j7 i1 V" F  Y$ y# K0 z* l) PA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.3 `* O7 t* w: O' C- o4 C1 P' F8 e
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
$ {4 Z8 k7 b3 t, i* a) j1 k( |- Thomas Edison# h, H5 q& I; X
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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.
2 m) l6 C* t. n5 c0 D- 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; Q" l4 t* j: h+ I8 y
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.2 X+ @' u/ a9 @
- Senator Bob Dole( L' W2 ]& W- x* M

6 u6 u! l* Q" {# l" P/ ^% }Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.  N- u3 |# @0 Z
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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. B( N" W! q& J/ x* w* z; F From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
6 {1 p7 o+ U8 V) y- 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.7 j  Y8 p! Q6 X, }# K; I0 v  g- H2 j
- Andrew Heller, IBM7 ]+ j0 S  T2 y9 n$ m  K
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.% G5 X3 P* G' j/ Y0 k. Y3 \
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos2 \. W+ u% S+ G5 `6 g

; C# R4 `: {, U. }2 x  f$ mHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?; p# E$ X4 L$ a3 g
- Al Gore on Y2K9 z3 E/ ^& E+ B5 J3 c
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent./ @% m1 [4 b! O4 f/ P
- Sydney Brenner in 19278 E- e+ f/ @6 u) \# u
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
1 e; S% s0 J' k+ K0 l- 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.' J5 i3 f  X  l" f+ b: G. [
- Linus Torvalds* D2 E7 E$ o, l4 d5 g1 g5 D2 @6 `% F1 B
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.8 P( h5 k. D) J0 S
- 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./ J( [, g( ~  ?
- Thomas Edison
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6 D, }1 ?; @, [Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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