open your gift

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package.

- gmail status of rohan mandora

Stand or perish

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Desire

Either we do what we desire or we desire what we do.

- gmail status of rahul upakare

Future makes no announcements

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

True Christmas

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

La vérité universelle - une crédible, l'autre ne l'est pas crédible

If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a park bench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure.
- gmail status of ankit garg

Something on Tech side

We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error. The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation.

- E.W. Dijkstra
(thanks to venkat for sharing the quote)

A sentence for those in people business

They need to be the folks people want to talk to, not those people have to talk to.

Them And They, Us and We

And Floyd says:

"Us, and them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows its noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end its only round and round."