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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.
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+ g$ g" M9 g9 g/ W2 b" NWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?9 u8 o0 g6 d+ H7 a. K0 Q
- T.S. Elliot
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4 k# v+ a1 Q2 Z8 Q2 y640K ought to be enough for anybody.
1 E- ^) K3 d7 j, C1 V; v- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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+ e: N% _: j- i* u: c3 AThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.' e* _. U8 s  |% ?6 u
- B. F. Skinner
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6 ]$ y: H7 l! Y' LThere 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.
" r4 a1 w# Z6 P; ~- George Pompidou: V: J' ^  V' }, |2 p; z2 {

: S, ~1 r( |1 ^  r. TTechnology 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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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.
+ |7 t3 l0 b: P' U- Andy Rooney
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3 \2 l# y, v! I2 V, c4 L0 |& {In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.4 ~; p  o; S+ f" q
- Richard Power
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5 _* D1 t$ A4 Y, k( lI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
  j& N# `: B- g' q/ e+ C- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.8 u2 r; C  @$ j. \) V1 _% Q9 l3 o
- 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.0 v1 \; {6 J2 F0 b7 Z
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in., X+ s3 c6 r  {5 T; ?* x. X
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
& n8 l1 S7 |' n6 ^! z+ X7 n- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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/ P( f+ {; ~4 [# L. E/ u0 XAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.  f8 p# j  y* W  _8 Q
- Anonymous; G! }: Z0 e5 j, E

. _4 I1 S6 b: o. aThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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+ ?6 v6 i8 {4 I: ZOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
7 e2 N3 ~8 p: I( W: o( f0 [' M5 N- Elbert Hubbard% @' D" g1 _0 |* \5 z7 x9 g( ^% ]* _
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.' o, X# Y& F2 l; ~
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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.& N& k! z: p) S3 q; P
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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) a. `) N4 Y* t* ]4 gBuild early and build often.* H. ~4 v- y, o$ n
- Proprietary developer adage1 V* ?. J: h, d# Q
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Release early and release often.* m2 \: Y. e3 R. l. B# R
- Open source developer adage
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
' O  i& ]6 R0 ]! V- 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.
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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.
) I9 L" M/ X7 L! j- Margaret Thatcher) H- w+ `5 K: a& t. M- q+ s
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.* B3 g! g( A9 f* k7 r, D% S
- Jerry Olson
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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.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.  d$ {0 y/ e' v1 X8 e( w+ b! o
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
5 ^4 F) g7 I# x2 x# D- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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7 z: d- A+ x' U; dAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
( W9 L. m7 L# J5 i- Arthur C. Clarke
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; K; B- @8 ?2 b2 k' n( x8 \Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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. s# r: |9 e! v# c5 b+ x9 p# OA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.9 u+ L$ r% `9 b2 `, n' S4 B" r
- Alan J. Perlis8 A  m. C7 Q0 g& D; R
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.7 Y+ M3 o' ]# Y0 i1 T0 X
- Thomas Edison
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! \* c4 M, e; s7 H5 l9 o" tGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.+ s6 P3 l1 K; G8 b* 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: C, v% L: c* F- Y
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: \# G, O" F( \# H# _9 E/ t+ z- 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., F. U5 v4 A+ y+ m0 o! |. G9 L
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it., ~  P  x4 @- Z" S0 z  S+ c9 w$ R
- 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./ \$ B% y* A4 I' O
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
; |2 X; w, Q/ Z  x- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos' b3 {$ ?( Q3 D% i

; Y& [1 D( c  F  m2 @How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
# h6 h& A/ [$ y& X* [9 R- Al Gore on Y2K
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0 I2 b  v$ E+ E9 {8 d' g$ {3 dThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
4 M: \2 q9 h: M( t4 Q* @( {1 z% R- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it./ c0 b8 M5 L# {- `) D' j( U1 p) k
- 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.7 l0 s5 w# H/ D. K+ v
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( [% v5 u% `# pWindows is just DOS in drag.9 M/ A! W; ^) k, W
- Anonymous
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8 m* t# l3 t2 ~8 J4 \$ D8 I& aThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
! Q6 `- a2 H7 w* g& q! `/ Q) {- 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." n5 o( G- `" e7 W$ A) E
- Thomas Edison, ], k$ K' z% |% O0 e0 y
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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