Cogitation

Make it large, Work out larger

2011-11-24T12:19:00.001+05:30

No dream's big, its the effort that is small...

Apo logy

2011-09-11T21:08:00.001+05:30

Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong and the other one is right... It simply means that you value the relationship much more than your ego .....

- gmail status of piyush sharan

Apology - Its not about stepping back, its about coming forward and accepting it.

- Rahul

2011-08-07T21:56:00.001+05:30

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; Perfection is God's business.

- Michael J. Fox

2011-08-07T01:56:00.001+05:30

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

~ J. Brotherton

Forget, to Annoy

2011-07-20T02:36:00.000+05:30

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde
Thanks to eastcoast for sharing on her webpage

Un known

2011-07-10T17:22:00.001+05:30

Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrows keep you Human,
Failures keep you humble ,
Success keeps You Glowing,
but Only God keeps You Going!

Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, write on walls, and get poked by people you don't know.

Blame the Origins

2011-06-29T14:18:00.001+05:30

Accursed be he that first invented war.

- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Accused be the society who made me.

- Attitude of non-regretting accused

Rationale

2011-06-15T02:46:00.001+05:30

Man is an irrational being capable of producing rational actions and thoughts.

- Naveen Kumar

Quote Clamour

2011-06-15T02:44:00.001+05:30

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of slience.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a friend.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; He who loves finds the gate open.
The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.

- Rabindranath Tagore

I, Me, Thy

2011-06-15T02:42:00.001+05:30

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Love

2011-06-03T10:59:00.001+05:30

तस्कीन-ऐ-मुहब्बत के बस दो ही तरीके हैं, ये दिल न बना होता या तुम न बने होते.. ये दिल न बना होता या तुम न बने होते .

- sanjay's gmail status

Usability

2011-05-31T09:27:00.001+05:30

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

- Ralph Johnson

Air Insane

2011-05-13T13:41:00.000+05:30

Insanity is in the air or how else do we breathe.

- Co-authors Rohit Agrawalla,Kushlendra Mishra

Oh my God-men

2011-04-26T13:09:00.001+05:30

"God-men" are all humans with power, money and people's ignorance to back them.

- Naveen Kumar

in a lighter vein ...

2011-04-20T10:17:00.001+05:30

Why dogs don't marry? Ans: Because they are already leading a dog's life!

Last Benchers

2011-03-05T11:47:00.001+05:30

First bench students are intelligent until last bench students don't participate in the'Competition'

- A. P. J. Kalam

Kipling's Fears

2011-02-06T23:58:00.000+05:30

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

T-Shirt Quote

2011-02-06T23:55:00.001+05:30

I may be nobody but nobody can be me.

- site-admin ;-)

Mishranomics

2011-01-26T09:51:00.001+05:30

IIT is the place to keep the best minds sedated.

After certain age, you are set free to build your own landmine. Pursue your dreams, don't evaluate.

- Mishraji

Hungry Quote

2011-01-09T03:14:00.001+05:30

Hunger makes you search for possibility, inspiration reinforces hope in possibility, motivation pushes despite hope but action is the only one that converts the possibility. They all deserve to be credited but if we still want to medal them out, hunger and action certainly deserve to stand on dais.

- Me

Snack Time Quotes

2010-12-31T15:05:00.001+05:30

Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

For every student with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far, so good!'

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Source: Bryan Wilkinson

Adieu to 2010

2010-12-31T10:28:00.001+05:30

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (source link)

kabi rabi

2010-11-25T12:41:00.001+05:30

Our country is the land of rites and ceremonials, so that we have more faith in worshiping the feet of the priest than the Divinity whom he serves.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Mark, his words

2010-10-19T12:18:00.000+05:30

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

- Mark Twain

Don't be strangely known

2010-09-03T23:43:00.001+05:30

It is good to be friends rather than known strangers.

- gmail status of ankit dangi

PS - I am slowly losing interest in maintaining this blog. It has been one of the things I have been consistent for a long time in life. I am sure there must be a gem lying in this blog that makes me do a comeback.

2010-08-14T02:14:00.001+05:30

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Lewis

AOL

2010-07-29T21:48:00.001+05:30

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

- Henry Ellis

right quotes, right place

2010-07-28T18:25:00.001+05:30

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

- Benjamin Franklin

जिस-जिस से पथ पर स्नेह मिला, उस-उस राही को धन्यवाद।
जीवन अस्थिर अनजाने ही, हो जाता पथ पर मेल कहीं,
सीमित पग डग, लम्बी मंज़िल, तय कर लेना कुछ खेल नहीं।
दाएँ-बाएँ सुख-दुख चलते, सम्मुख चलता पथ का प्रसाद,
जिस-जिस से पथ पर स्नेह मिला, उस-उस राही को धन्यवाद।

- Unkown
- shared by abhishek mehta

shades of change

2010-07-28T07:11:00.001+05:30

Kadi dhoop se rahat mili bas abhi hi
ki ab gareeb ki chatt tapakti hai
Mausam ameero ki liye badalta hoga
gareeb ke liye dikkatt badalti hai.

- unknown
- shared by ankit garg

Dream Dynamite

2010-07-19T23:09:00.001+05:30

It takes one dream to break away from boundaries of realities.

- peeyush chomal

great and small, same and different

2010-06-27T10:46:00.001+05:30

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

Winners [and Losers] Don't Do Different Things, They Do Things Differently.

- Shiv Khera's quote [with an addition from me.]

boxed freedom

2010-06-24T12:39:00.001+05:30

Our freedom depends on five boxes: soap, ballot, jury, witness; and, when all else fails, Ammunition.

- unknown

madness explained

2010-06-09T12:38:00.001+05:30

There are no mad people, you just can't hear the music they are dancing to.

- patrick's version of a proverb

Bugging quote

2010-06-06T19:21:00.001+05:30

Bugs are like bugs, we are oblivious of their existence until they bite us hard.

- Kushlendra Mishra

Gravity of earthy love

2010-05-23T10:50:00.001+05:30

"Gravity can not be held responsible for the People falling in Love."

- Albert Einstein
Thanks to rohit for sharing it

Al oh we eee

2010-05-21T11:43:00.001+05:30

'Love' is a story for some, news for many and knowledge for rest.

- Mrinal Kanti Rai

2010-05-16T20:50:00.001+05:30

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

- Philip Knight

roady walk

2010-05-11T13:35:00.000+05:30

Traveller, there are no roads. Roads are made by walking.

- Spanish proverb

Chinese for a taste change ;-)

2010-05-11T02:24:00.001+05:30

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

- Chinese Proverb

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In business, be competent. In action, watch the timing.

- Tao Te Ching

thanks to nupur roopa for sharing it

Democracy not equal to Conformocracy

2010-05-07T20:06:00.001+05:30

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

- Abbie Hoffman

soldiers of change - time travellers in true sense

2010-05-04T01:22:00.001+05:30

Anyone who fights for the Future lives in it today.

- Ayn Rand in "The Romantic Manifesto"
shared by pallavi on FB

liberal education

2010-05-02T16:19:00.001+05:30

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

- Sydney J. Harris

ever realized this ;)

2010-05-02T16:15:00.001+05:30

I don't wake up late. The world is in a hurry.

- patrick

There is nowhere we are more honest than the search box.

- Anonymous

From iskool to school - painting the natives

2010-05-01T07:47:00.001+05:30

This civilization doesn't scream out its superiority, it lets it seep in and enter the bloodstream. It subtly lets the 'native' know that it has the power to help him deal with the present and the future through its sciences, its dress code, its architecture, its food. I call it the slow and steady colonization of the mind. And, in the forefront of the colonizing process was the language.

'Ammi, it's not iskool, the word is school.'

- Excerpted from Ammi: Letter To a Democratic Mother by Saeed Mirza

the real work, your dream

2010-04-25T12:34:00.001+05:30

Sleeping is important. Sleeping is when I am actually doing something where as when awake I ain't doing what I want to do.

- peeyush chomal

spark is precious

2010-04-20T22:59:00.001+05:30

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

- Robin Williams

Time to get hands dirty to make something neat

2010-04-19T11:14:00.001+05:30

When there is a castle to be built, one needs to start collecting the sand.

- gmail status of ankit dangi

Commitment makes all the difference

2010-04-19T05:21:00.001+05:30

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

- Mack R. Douglas

Healthy reminder

2010-04-18T22:39:00.001+05:30

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Alice says, Lewis writes

2010-04-16T14:06:00.001+05:30

"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly: "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

see the lessons on loose amid losses

2010-04-15T14:42:00.001+05:30

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

- Instructions for Life by Dalai Lama

Who You are?

2010-04-15T12:33:00.001+05:30

You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet.
You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

-- Tyler Durdin ( Fight Club )
thanks to ankur for sharing it

vision matters

2010-04-14T23:14:00.001+05:30

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

From Shashi, The Tharoor

2010-04-13T13:15:00.001+05:30

Indians will not become any less Indian if, in Mahatma Gandhi's metaphor, we open the doors and windows of our country and let foreign winds blow through our house – because Indians are strong enough not to be blown off their feet by these winds.

- Shashi Tharoor as Distinguished Speaker in USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

2010-04-12T21:46:00.001+05:30

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

- Abraham Lincoln

Peanuts fetch zoo

2010-04-12T15:14:00.001+05:30

If you pay peanuts, you will only get monkeys.

- former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew

world of reality

2010-04-11T11:01:00.001+05:30

Each one has own world of reality(WOR). Teacher fights to make learners to dive into teacher's WOR. But, great do it in reverse.

- Akshay kumar

two forked Wrong's path

2010-04-10T11:08:00.001+05:30

We seek compromise when we are wrong. We seek justice when others are wrong.

- Pritish Nandy's friend

Ignorance

2010-04-01T13:54:00.001+05:30

Religion and science have a common ancestor - Ignorance.

- A.C. Grayling

one of its kind separation

2010-03-26T11:56:00.000+05:30

As I walk away from you, I wish to wipe away all the memories from your mind n heart. With that I will prevent tears from flowing or lips from laughing. There is nothing I will take with me. There is nothing I will (wish to) leave behind for you.

- peeyush

New World's Axiom

2010-03-23T08:04:00.000+05:30

Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.

- annacoder tweeted it as an American axiom

be so firm that even the ground shouldn't matter

2010-03-20T21:50:00.001+05:30

Stand so firmly that even when the world collapses, you don't lose your ground.

- peeyush chomal

2010-03-09T01:27:00.001+05:30

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

- Matthew Prior
English diplomat & poet (1664 - 1721)

Proudest verbs

2010-02-19T13:51:00.001+05:30

They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!
- Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol

lawyer

2010-02-19T13:40:00.001+05:30

a good lawyer can keep you out of jail, but no lawyer can get you into heaven.

- Prof. Patrick Winston's father

writing a will to the future

2010-02-14T23:58:00.001+05:30

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

- Robert Francis Kennedy

statistics

2010-02-14T23:49:00.001+05:30

Good people are like Outliers - away from the mean.

Valentine Day

2010-02-14T23:36:00.001+05:30

Valentine Day - Even the calendar has a date with Love!

2010-02-09T00:00:00.001+05:30

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

- G K Chesterton

Thoughts are good, deeds better

2010-02-04T14:37:00.001+05:30

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

2010-02-01T21:31:00.001+05:30

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

- Albert Einstein

Organic Thrill

2010-02-01T21:29:00.001+05:30

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge

- William James

slow is still a pace

2010-01-25T14:35:00.001+05:30

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

- Chinese Proverb

2010-01-22T23:14:00.001+05:30

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?

- Shantideva

2010-01-16T13:29:00.001+05:30

Everything in life is attitude.

- gmail status of rahulu

said by Chuck Swindoll

difference between the same

2009-12-17T16:32:00.001+05:30

Getting things done is not the same as making things happen.

- gmail status of rahulu

try-angle

2009-12-15T13:22:00.001+05:30

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

- gmail status of rahulu

TT play in life

2009-12-13T13:20:00.000+05:30

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

- Wilson Mizner
Playwright and writer

Your definition

2009-12-13T13:12:00.001+05:30

Hard Work defines You.

- gmail status of ankit dangi

success sum

2009-12-13T12:53:00.001+05:30

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

- Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Quotable people's quote :)

2009-12-06T06:00:00.001+05:30

Don't compare man, you will die, find your own niche.

- ishu bhatia

The true luxury is in your relations...

- kavitham

sky my roof, earth my floor

2009-12-04T14:01:00.001+05:30

No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

- Michael O'Muircheartaigh

2009-11-29T13:14:00.001+05:30

ना रख अपने आप को, तू इस तरह संभाल कर, एक चादर को ओढ़, अपने कंधे पर डाल कर, समुंदरी शीत लहरों का प्रभाव, तुझसे कभी न रुकेगा, कुदरत की कहर के आगे, तू भी मिटटी में मिल जाएगा.

- gmail status of ankit dangi

everything is crack+

2009-11-28T17:07:00.001+05:30

There is a Crack, a Crack in Everything / That's How the Light Gets In.

- Leonard Cohen

The right Qs

2009-11-27T00:09:00.001+05:30

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

- Howard Thurmon

Pain is temporary. Pride is forever.

- Anon

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

- Richard L. Evans

Middle path towards better environment

2009-11-25T11:44:00.001+05:30

... the problem can be very easily solved by everyone giving up N things. But very few people in the free world would be willing to do that. So we'll have to rely on most people giving up 1 or 2 things out of their own list of N things. For me, I didn't give up living in suburbs. But I
- wear a jacket at home in winter instead of turning on the heat
- use a fan in summer instead of AC
- line-dry my laundary in the backyard instead of using the gas dryer
- skip the plastic or paper bags when grocery-shopping
- gave up my SUV and got a Prius
- and literally dig through the household trash to find recyclable and compostable items that my wife and in-laws fail to separate out.

--- OP on berkeley's MOTD

itchguard ;)

2009-11-19T19:13:00.001+05:30

Got an itch? sit on it!

- shireen gaurav

As Putt puts it

2009-11-18T13:42:00.001+05:30

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.

- Putt's Law

2009-11-12T11:16:00.001+05:30

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

- Louisa May Alcott
1832–88, American author

PS - Not able to come up with a title for last few weeks for the quotes I like. Mind seems to have got shot at point Blank range. :(

2009-11-07T22:05:00.001+05:30

We are the people our parents warned us about.

- Jimmy Buffet
gmail status of venkata

2009-11-06T17:36:00.001+05:30

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Disraeli

2009-11-06T17:33:00.001+05:30

We've got to hold on ready or not. You live for the fight when it's all that you've got.

- Bon Jovi

A very pertinent question

2009-10-21T17:00:00.001+05:30

ask whether we are working for tomorrow's history or for tomorrow's future?

- gmail status of ankit dangi

Life, the LIVE movie

2009-10-14T15:03:00.001+05:30

The world is a stage and forget about the script, they didn't even let me rehearse once...

- gmail status of tarun bajaj

Act like a fellow warrior

2009-10-14T08:58:00.001+05:30

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato

- gmail status of nandini

Life and Death

2009-10-06T13:29:00.001+05:30

Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.

-- Elbert Hubbard

It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.

-- Anaxandrides

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask "Compared to what?"

-- Sydney Harri

People! :)

2009-10-06T02:27:00.001+05:30

When I say "I talk to God", people accept it as a prayer- When I say God talked to me, suddenly I am a schizophrenic.

- gmail status of tarun

forget is an inverse function of itself :)

2009-10-05T23:06:00.001+05:30

The more I try to forget you, the more I forget to forget you.

- gmail status of paras kapoor

2009-10-01T23:20:00.001+05:30

साधना के देश में मत नाम ले विश्राम का !

- Source: Geetganga

Man, The Seeker

2009-09-30T00:14:00.001+05:30

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs,alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

- Jean Cocteau