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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.; R% Z  p# U2 W  N# v- L
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum1 v2 b; t6 U( s+ @* C( m
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?4 N$ y# a# l5 j$ U
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.7 \" s8 H1 G& _& B6 Z
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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6 ~9 [. q. L! mThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.8 v2 ?5 h* c& c2 U
- 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.
2 C6 s: y+ A$ o% {. i0 u5 z- 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.
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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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# b: R' q+ n: @* z; F1 g; JComputers 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.
9 n/ c, m- b; O  \" q- Andy Rooney9 L) Z- L0 t- U+ p/ ]! Y

: T! v, A7 _* B' r: N8 hIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
" z, g6 i# V6 j. ]6 X' t% U- Richard Power5 H2 D# b: E5 m' }7 v! ~

- _. o  B, q' M9 r% DI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
: O& h, g) x4 k9 \- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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3 N+ q1 }+ K/ _% K/ O+ [If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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/ K  m' j) ^' @  g9 G4 P. E- cIn 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.% Y- m4 k' u/ X2 p, ~
- Bradley's Bromide" z* h7 h) F8 A% q; f) S0 q
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.2 ]$ E1 z. ?  b( B
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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+ i$ W8 r) {( D% |6 `At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
& H+ K' X8 y8 S! U8 D- 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.
; ~' c# i$ r6 v/ k& p- 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.* Z7 H( p' S; H1 ]' ]! U+ m  _
- Elbert Hubbard
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" Q6 b. H# U8 Z5 d* C5 {3 m* ?5 ~Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.9 M! @3 f" q% l; ~' B& `; l
- 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.- ^! N8 B& r3 o, P# B) E4 s8 x; u
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.% d" S5 q1 V- k' d0 }
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word: z6 m5 l) m5 B: J# x$ O4 r

# z- S& B: v3 _8 L9 |Build early and build often.6 |/ {' D$ [- P; u/ e9 W
- Proprietary developer adage! \; g# I7 v" ^# b

" [, a8 F5 ~6 t0 cRelease early and release often.
8 a0 [0 P- k0 z/ R' z- Open source developer adage$ Y! q% G$ y8 B. i

: G+ l7 s6 {4 r  `$ X: J. M! FWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.0 R5 Z0 s* l/ Q0 Q
- Carl Sagan
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1 |+ j7 M9 o+ Z4 j8 }7 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.) W- X- O; f8 c. ?* J( w' _3 k
- 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.. p8 p% v  b& A: |
- Margaret Thatcher; J$ k' X) f) U" _) T  o( B
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.' O* W  n( g: ?# O: ^8 y$ L( @
- Jerry Olson  T$ p  b  `, l2 e, v% M
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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.) d( d2 Y& o, s9 Y  r$ i2 W% C5 t
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
7 W5 L! }$ ~& f5 F7 D: W* o- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
# x  i/ {# W" n- Arthur C. Clarke
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- Z# K" U- ~6 x7 J* J5 x$ ^Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.4 l' S0 i( I( }7 O* a: N4 o
- Gregory Benford1 w6 i: N! |. r& S6 o
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Never 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.
$ m8 e( ?4 O% L. ^! s5 r- Alan J. Perlis+ d: X6 F; [% i; \

. x7 O" p3 a+ r8 A  ]6 lI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
4 m9 n7 ~1 L/ _* q- Thomas Edison
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6 o+ z: ?' N* |' \) V4 T+ uGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
% L: W2 `. W7 i- x- 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 developed5 ]0 N* I/ \) g6 [  y3 Z5 @
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- b* u& n" z* [/ J5 I7 y- Senator Bob Dole3 \  {: g& a- v
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.2 o% ]2 t# S) _7 o  f$ l
- Popular Mechanics, 1949" [+ j9 O' L* I

+ |3 i6 b1 L# A, |0 I+ S( ?4 \ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
4 U( G7 D/ s, C4 _- 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.0 \. _: R4 T" r0 [, C: D
- Andrew Heller, IBM$ b/ T5 L+ f* T9 D+ R
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.  f8 f, ~& G9 H# C% |0 l
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos* m) z! m6 Y, W/ L% i+ i9 D9 P% F

: s% h: ]1 C. W9 t7 f8 IHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
" l7 f- g- x+ y1 p1 Y8 `- Al Gore on Y2K
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) c7 W% W" a% ?3 d" K1 u2 GThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.3 E$ ^6 M0 j5 @. q) q# M
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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6 y; n& B% w* X  c5 n6 iThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.: z  x2 k6 w) Z" \6 v/ {
- Linus Torvalds  j" \4 j8 T9 B: A# {% v( s
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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.9 }( o* U; s# y
- Linus Torvalds
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  n7 K1 k+ ^) U6 N, ~! ?& B+ MWindows is just DOS in drag.
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8 m# G* d; h$ p8 dThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
+ j4 _: G  U, [3 a0 @- 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.
- @9 T2 _- E6 R- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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