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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.
: i6 Y* @5 J, T4 B8 a" h; m5 P7 @- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.5 m; }& f' r$ B4 F: i8 A1 m! U
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.* n% v$ t8 b: D
- B. F. Skinner, ~# _2 c* f3 W- R
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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.% P" Y# ?. ^/ O
- 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.5 ?! x  s4 J5 U! Z0 }, v( D2 q
- Anonymous4 c7 W0 F2 s: r: T, C! e

. Q9 f4 \5 q* T/ i1 e! QFor 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.- ~( o7 C; V( B0 [: W
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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.) d8 p* T# `! M# k7 J3 X1 ?
- Andy Rooney3 |# u& p: Y$ C

9 y: N$ }" O2 b0 v( n' Y6 bIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
6 ]! n0 S9 c6 p1 M- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
7 ~+ q1 ^; a* W( d9 Q- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943% ^- s3 `/ i5 s& B0 Z- Q  ^5 W2 Q
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.1 q( v' Z4 A. [
- Scott Adams! [8 y; `7 A  k" }  w
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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.; W0 M, U/ R$ o7 M7 E
- Anonymous
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- F, a. Q$ T, Z2 m6 ?If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.( U4 i; K( M- L2 m
- Bradley's Bromide
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: p" T: d* E: R, p4 [The Internet is the Viagra of big business.3 c$ e: |* [/ t; L8 p5 P2 P
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric' J9 _. h8 M+ \5 Q' w5 J, ~
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.; v2 d- K9 y0 K$ H. q* G
- Anonymous  D- t4 B6 A$ \( F' R" F
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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.
# L7 K, z7 @. `) s: ^- Jeremy S. Anderson  A2 v9 Z. x* D, G4 T/ z

& {; j6 \( ?* C: B  ^One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man., s7 K. S3 C4 I2 ]3 D& v
- Elbert Hubbard4 S) g( o6 a, v# }  k! \
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.9 S* v: y. m; A& m; D
- David Thornburg; z% j! h3 c, S' _+ u$ r: @
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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.
! v# a- A! J3 x  `! f- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word1 A1 V' m/ S/ }& T+ p2 u2 Z1 w

2 V" t$ J# J  O) D) z0 Y9 f9 q$ l0 PBuild early and build often.
. n, {% ^: B9 C, Y- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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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.* P  ^+ @8 z1 M* L4 j
- Carl Sagan* a' Q4 |7 ~( T% X/ x( j

  F9 ?* g: P, r; BIf 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.0 T; P1 V+ f0 t3 e5 A7 |, H
- 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.5 H. `6 a" Q# m0 [' B1 D
- Margaret Thatcher' Z# n& Y" R# i5 Z

( f: B+ _7 I, E; s7 u6 j$ {; C$ s0 BThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.; Y- X5 `) H) L& H: n5 o- O
- Jerry Olson- {( S& l7 T  c" f: 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.& N" ^4 Q% I- ^6 I* m8 h! p
- Porterfield
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- `! L0 V! L9 F- f0 y2 ^+ o! G- hEverything that can be invented has been invented.! a) \) h& a* {/ ~3 G) ~+ s: _& r
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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: u) _: w! l& z. {3 q& n2 NGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT% u4 I% r5 \- S$ s: J; \9 \
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
  v6 l0 k$ G5 E  o- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced./ a  t1 D7 D/ R# A' _
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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4 c$ y9 u0 `6 uA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.5 e  I& |1 _8 w' X: n' g
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  n' ]7 A! K2 ]% _- 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! f' s) m/ @" \5 c! l- 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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$ x4 r+ P* Q& `$ f0 N# aThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
1 U! ?! s) {# _. B; `/ z$ G% x- 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.
4 P( s3 W( Z# ~# O' {- Popular Mechanics, 1949; N- d0 [6 l# i9 Y5 x  J, _  O! |
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.) J% B* d2 t; N  W+ h
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy1 i& ]( Q; k- e; l$ D
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.9 x7 X% B  O2 [
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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8 \. j' J9 A+ k) g" Q2 G9 |9 }AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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6 d7 ^, b& i( h3 R" Q1 r8 s, b0 BHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?) y' e+ C  A% J, i6 C' o2 i
- Al Gore on Y2K6 Z- N  {; D5 C! K. p' d

0 ^* [: d! P+ J6 T; g. SThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
# p' E  M4 R- Q8 j- Sydney Brenner in 19272 g# L- c& k/ ~
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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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.: v' C# }! S" x  G
- Linus Torvalds0 z+ I2 R1 d+ W" }

/ }5 A6 w+ {5 U$ n6 N% nWindows is just DOS in drag." T  g6 H$ ^6 d( m
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- O% t9 J- ~4 R! K0 D( m* c/ p; MThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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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.
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8 w: v( l2 c0 M- m7 ^+ i/ d* `Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D
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