Understanding a question is half an answer.
- Socrates
Drop
I am the fresh dew on the green grass
the tear in the eye during separation
and reunion part of rain
part of efforts, part of pain
efforts that win, efforts that go vain
I power the river, I make the cloud
clouds that make rain, clouds that burst
they have a separate word for my love "THIRST"
Written vs Truth
Over years, we have an inherent respect and trust for the written word. In the non-digital age, printing was expensive and restricted and the written word earned it's respect because of the care people invested in it before printing it. The digital age has democratised and commoditised printing. Our habits and trust still belong to the non-digital age. The only lesson to draw here is to check sources and not believe everything written on a webpage. It is easier said than done.
एक मीठी सी रचना
सुंदरता हो न हो सादगी होनी चाहिए
खुशबू हो न हो महक होनी चाहिए
रिश्ता हो न हो बंदगी होनी चाहिए
मुलाकात हो न हो, बात होनी चाहिए......!
यूं तो उलझे है सभी अपनी उलझनों में
पर सुलझाने की कोशिश हर बार होनी चाहिए.......!
इस जीवन की चादर में
सांसों के ताने बाने हैं
दुख की थोड़ी सी सलवट है
सुख के कुछ फूल सुहाने हैं
क्यों सोचे आगे क्या होगा
अब कल के कौन ठिकाने हैं
ऊपर बैठा वो बाजीगर
जाने क्या मन में ठाने है
चाहे जितना भी जतन करे
भरने का दामन तारों से
झोली में वो ही आएँगे
जो तेरे नाम के दाने है
- Unknown
How to flee into future
A successful company needs to become its own fiercest competitor, willing to create new offerings that ultimately kill off its existing cash cows.
Change driver
Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
Tagore's faith is a bird
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Focus Fresh Inc.
The secret of change Is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Grave mistake
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there; I did not die
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there; I did not die
Science and Religion
Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive. They share lots of common followers. Religion should not be considered a symbol of ignorance. Ignorance comes from many directions, including self-righteous atheists. Practice some tolerance.
- Rahul Gupta, rephrased a facebook comment from Alyssa Tyson
Direction
without clear direction, even the world's best vehicle and driver can take you nowhere.
- Rahul Gupta
The Job
"the job" is an artificial construct, in which work is managed and parcelled out by corporations and other institutions, to which individuals must apply to participate in doing the work.
If you want to understand the future, just look at what rich people do today.
privileged class experiences a taste of a future that could be the future for everyone.
man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.
- Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes
There may need to be two kinds of money: machine money, and human money. Machine Money is what you use to buy things that are produced by machines. These things are always getting cheaper. Human Money is what you use to buy things that only humans can produce. The key thing that humans offer that machines do not is ‘authenticity’.
- Paul Buchheit, GMail creator
Perhaps “Human Money” needs to be further subdivided into “Caring Money” and “Creativity Money.”
If “internet creator” were a company, it would be hiring faster than any company in silicon valley.
Drop by drop
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
- song, Allan Roberts(lyricist), Ella Fitzgerald(singer)
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Publicist
He [God] is the biggest underachiever of all time. He just has a good publicist, that's all. Something good happens, "It's his will." Something bad happens, "He moves in mysterious ways."
- Satan, End of Days
Correct to yourself
इन्सान खुद की नज़र में सही होना चाहिए, दुनिया तो भगवान से भी दुखी है।
A man must be right in his own eyes, the world's not happy even with God.
- पियूष मिश्रा (Piyush Mishra)
solved soul
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Time's a biilion
You don't need to wear an expensive watch to show the world how precious is your time.
Anything that keeps you awake at night should be worthy of your intellect and sleep.
- Rahul Gupta
Statistically
Averages seldom show the truth that details can never hide.
- Pankaj Chadda, Co-founder, Zomato
The need for knowing three R's, reading, writing and arithmetic is well understood. These do not take us far unless we acquire the fourth R, reasoning under uncertainty for taking decisions in real life.
From the attic of Atticus
My atoms love your atoms, it's chemistry.
She wore his compliments like diamonds.
It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways.
She wasn't looking for a knight she was looking for a sword.
- Atticus
Waste less, use more
Preventing waste is a better solution than recycling it.
- Article by Matt Stern
Weight can't be measured by height
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Judge meant
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Beware how you take hope from another human being.
Beware how you take hope from another human being.
Problem Solving
If the country had a million problems, it even had a billion minds.
- Narendra Modi in a speech
What's Right
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
- Edward Snowden
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