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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.# J5 _! [; F, ?/ n: c/ i) E
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum' r1 L. d" H5 x" @  J* g

3 g0 B) A4 v& ~2 ^6 ]! {$ hWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?, i2 S8 J9 B# I- f& Q  m& n$ f# e# c& o
- T.S. Elliot3 L7 L% z: P1 H: T; v2 T1 [
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.: d- ^/ I2 b# D0 n* g  O
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19812 |6 ^5 F! X0 X
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The 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." e; N. M# ^2 p  v
- 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.* e2 P* G0 Y! E/ h
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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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1 ^: ]/ \6 X* \, J7 m, \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.
  A! s; [9 M  ^# _+ v- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
# h% o) M8 l4 A( g, t2 ~- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
% a( F1 o6 U$ V$ b- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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* L4 I* U! m1 ^( M6 ZIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.) n0 [1 p2 f  \7 G7 F) t6 S
- Scott Adams
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8 X: ^: ?4 s4 E5 C) ^In 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.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.3 z! f$ Y9 z, `
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric6 J6 _$ i4 S3 t" P% W0 d0 s  v0 a
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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# x0 f/ l% U6 t1 ^9 ?2 BThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.: X( P9 |1 t. j1 O7 X! X5 r
- 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.
- P9 F# z$ R% \& e- Elbert Hubbard# Y3 x; ^# J  R6 Q$ `" n5 @/ N
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.3 n$ X& n; T# g9 B$ b" B
- David Thornburg
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, y6 F# y  \: N0 I1 `2 D; OThose 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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! b5 V" _" F. r+ }) O% C. Q, ASave early, save often.
8 h$ c9 Z" w: r( }& J6 o- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word# f) F( h6 u& W& m

( S" V! Y3 D( M' l4 ZBuild early and build often.* D; n9 I- T% D5 }  ~
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5 a1 _$ v( H0 ?4 l+ BRelease early and release often.
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7 C" @) ~0 d: X% O3 a6 K' ZWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.% X$ `( r" S! N$ V4 U
- Carl Sagan+ M; _; {6 R- d; l4 J
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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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- ~' s5 a& i  h& B3 t/ EThere 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.0 K  R# L, y$ z. B& o* f
- Jerry Olson
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, ^6 ^. \7 e8 @& F+ OThe 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.
2 |3 Z% e+ {% P5 S- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899; L% k' c7 }' l' L0 D- K. r

9 E4 G$ n* s& Y& DGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
! v6 R( Y4 l- z' x+ X1 \; q8 x5 {- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
" {& F$ D' O0 `3 r- Arthur C. Clarke
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( O) f* q% F4 s3 b' VAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.  ?: Q. Q, j9 k+ S; g' t, o# G
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
0 ?8 @2 a; W# E- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." \! Y3 i( S' `+ G% f7 j
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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.8 S, Z4 s! q0 t) l" z8 K
- 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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  A1 P5 s8 T6 m2 ]# f# P) nThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.) X" z2 u. \; P- X6 m
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
, |0 L% F5 m( O% X5 v- Popular Mechanics, 19491 O- p5 u# m* h5 R: ~2 G

9 |% w9 {3 V5 ^( S From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.  y. E8 S0 @9 ]
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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0 V2 P' h  g9 q& |  M6 \2 j; dTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes./ {, A. K) ~2 R; z* D) M
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
6 z$ e+ e! A" K2 `- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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0 U. D1 _' r* y, Y0 w7 OHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?! m% ^% g* z& @" W* v  ~; H0 _
- Al Gore on Y2K9 V5 Y0 A9 f! f+ `- t
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.0 I  n3 R9 e' u; x
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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0 `- Q: q& G  qThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.3 R! Q( X2 F, J- M
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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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.2 u. s+ p% P/ q
- Anonymous
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8 x6 ?9 P, t2 b9 j3 m) [There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
6 l2 ]( W6 {2 F0 V# b) a1 J- 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.
$ t0 U+ L- y2 P# x1 w, t$ j" r6 E- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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