We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Flat Fact about Flattery
You Aspire, They Conspire
When you really want something, entire universe gathers its positive forces, conspires you to realize your Personal Legend and fulfill your dream.
- Paulo Coelho, Author of "The Alchemist"
Anchahi
अनचाही होए कभी मन चाही भी होए, इस धुप छाव कि जिन्दगी में क्या नाचे क्या रोये!
- gmail status of ankit dangi
No loss, All gain
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle, writer (1918 - )
बाक़ी जिन्दगी
जिन्दगी कि असली उड़ान अभी बाक़ी हैं
जिन्दगी के कई इम्तेहान अभी बाक़ी हैं
फिलहाल तो नापी है मुट्ठी भर ज़मीन
सारा आस्मां तो अभी बाक़ी है
- स्टेटस ऑफ़ सौरभ, सीडैक
Histories need a swap, perspectives need a change
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
- Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)
Laughs and Cries
I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but i
never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry...
- gmail status of kanika, my schoolmate
Men of Experiment
"The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped."
- Francis Bacon as quoted here
For more research and Science Quotes, visit AI+CI
Open Minded Heart
An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
- Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- )
Counts matter and not Counted
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
- Albert Einstein
Its all Seasonal
Les feuilles sèches préparent la tisane de l'automne.
Dry leaves make autumn's herbal tea.
- Ramon Gomez de la Serna
Unawareness is the biggest stupidity
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
- gmail status of nihar khedekar
A li'l techie OLB
Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends.
gmail status of rahul upakare
Today's GMAIL statuses
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult
Neeta Mishra
Never waste a lie when the truth will do. Rahul Upakare
Read this and Feel better
People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
- gmail status of ankit garg
Smartness
None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Read here
The problems we face are too complex to be solved by any one person or any one discipline. Our only chance is to bring people together from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines who can refract a problem through the prism of complementary minds allied in common purpose.
Slowly becoming Fast
Somewhere among all the rapid global communications via Transatlantic cables and real-time GPS-based shipment tracking information sent directly to your Palm Pilot and Blackberry, the lesson of "slow and steady wins the race" is being forgotten.
Good for the swarm, Good for the bee
That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.
- Montesquieu
There are many exceptions to the above quote. Can be a good test case for an AI program that finds Moral of a given story.
Try this
Smooth roads never make good drivers.
- gmail status of chintu sir
Regret's Motive
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
- Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915 - )
"don't know enough" paradox
"... the more you study the more you're gonna feel like you don't know enough, there is a whole theory on this thing. Imagine knowledge as circle, inside the circle is what you know, outsite is the unknown, imagline the line as the contact with the unknow, the bigger the circle gets the more contact with the unknown (therefore you may feel stupid), on the contrary the smaller the circle the smaller the contact with the unknown, therefore you think you know everything (remember grade school). "
- from a forum thread on subject GRE, computer science
Parting to cherish
We meet to make memories ...we part to cherish them..
- gmail status of rashi82 on gmail
Life
Life means missing expected things and facing unexpected things. When you are right, no one remembers, but when you are wrong, no one forgets...This is life
- gmail status of Neeta, cdac
Theoretical Roots of Practical Trees
Rejecting theory as useless in order to work only on everyday things is like proposing to cut the roots of a tree because they do not carry fruit.
- Marquis de Condorcet, 1775.
Find your second great day
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
- gmail status of amol
Heart's world
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- Buddha
Watch your arrogance
in the sin of a sinner is the seed of his destruction... In his [ravana's] arrogance lies his destruction
- vishnu in 'ramayana'
faith comes after doubt
It's impossible to have faith until you have doubted.
- gmail status of kanika
Attitude
People laugh because I am different. And I laugh because they are all the same.. That's called ATTITUDE.
- gmail status of AMOL
Invasion of Army, Army of Ideas
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Be Difficult for Difficulties
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you but to help you realise your hidden potential. Let difficulties know that you are difficult!
- Gmail Status of Abhishek (cnie, cdacmumbai)
Opinions change, Facts remain
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that i am right.
- Gmail Status of Eva
Graduates of Life
"... Because when you're in college it's very clear what you have to do to succeed. And I imagine here everybody knows exactly the number of credits they needed to graduate, where they had to buckle down, which introductory psychology class would pad out the schedule. You knew what you had to do to get to this college and to graduate from it. But the unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. The paths are infinite and the results uncertain. And it can be maddening to those that go here, especially here, because your strength has always been achievement. So if there's any real advice I can give you it's this.
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong…although I'm sure downloading illegal files…but, nah, that's a different story.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
And the last thing I want to address is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead."
- Jon StewartCollege is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong…although I'm sure downloading illegal files…but, nah, that's a different story.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
And the last thing I want to address is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead."
In his Commencement address in William and Mary University
Become a fool or Remain a fool
Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
- Picked from atishay's blog
What matters is you and nothing else
Do all you can; with what you have; in the time you have; in the place you are.
- Nkosi Johnson
Very right!!
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
Hunting, not a sport at least
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
-Paul Rodriguez
Impotent Past, Potential Future
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Wall vs. bridge :: Cage vs. Nest
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
- J Newton
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented
cages.
- Jacques Deval, writer and director (1895-1972)
Relationships are binding for those who consider them as cages. people who consider them as birds love to feed them.
Positive Negative
Positive pictures come out from negatives developed in a dark room so if u find yourself lonely and in dark,understand that GOD is working a beautiful picture.
Source: A geek's blog
Looping Research
X researches on economy, finds packaging can boost it.
Y gives a solution, invents plastics.
Z researches on environment, says plastics is an environment hazard.
After all the letters get there Phd they have realised how much destruction they have done...
Now they are doing R&D to build "TIME MACHINE" to return to olden days.
Edison said: i did not fail 9999 times i just invented 9999 ways how not to make bulb
Future Scientists will say: We didn't fail in making earth a better place. We just got better informed about what all things can destroy earth - atom bombs, plastics, Smoke, CFLs etc.
Credit: Chat with my online friend, Catherine.
Edison also said that "For Every Wrong Attempt Discarded Is Another Step Forward."
Are we discarding our wrong attempts at making a world a better place?
Even after knowing about things that have destroyed and are destroying the environment around us, have we been able to discard them?
We say we are growing developing moving ahead....
Ending on a relevant quote from the movie Gandhi
Nehru: Bapuji, the whole country is moving.
Gandhi: Yes. but in what direction?
no time to title
No one can go back and make a brand new start. But you can always start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
God has to break you to build you
Voice of Courage
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
–Mary Anne
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”
–Tom Krause
Gmail Status
A single rose given during one's lifetime is better than a bouquet of orchids placed over the grave.
- Gmail status of Neeta Mishra
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
- Gmail status of Paras Kapoor
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. - Adapation (2002)
- Gmail status of Shriram Ramani
Reasoning gives life to knowledge.
- My Gmail status :)
Make your home the source of light
Light moves from a source and spreads all around. So start from your home.
Struggle - Just not another sweetener
To really know what success means, earn it. Don't rely on some elevator to get you there. The higher the floor you want to reach, the more important it is to take the stairs.
Some rat body in every body
On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody
--Taxi Driver
The problem with rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat.
--Anonymous
Read in orkut profile of Gaurav Arora, my friend
A Tribute
" Swimming is about staying under the water and not above it"
(Read, if you really want to do something good, stay cool, calm and quiet)
"Don't cross the bridge until it comes to you"
- Dr. V.P. Sinha
My Professor @ DA-IICT
A wonderful person
My Professor @ DA-IICT
A wonderful person
Agree to Disagree
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
You failed or you quit?
You can never quit. Winner never quit, and quitters never win.
- Ted Turner
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Willingness and Laziness
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
Good for the Worst
A good action is related in some way to lifting the worst off in society.
-John Rawls, a philosopher
Memory and Intelligence
A good memory is a cheap trick that creates a deceptive aura of intelligence around an otherwise ordinary intellect.
- From NYTimes
Thoughtful thoughts
Thoughts For Life
The greatest handicap: Fear
The best day: Today
The easiest thing to do: Find a fault
The most useless asset: Pride
The greatest mistake: Giving up
The biggest stumbling block: Egotism
The most disagreeable person: The complainer
The worst bankruptcy: Loss of enthusiasm
The greatest need: Common sense
The meanest feeling: Regret at another's success
The best gift: Forgiveness
The greatest moment: Death
The greatest knowledge: God
The greatest thing in the world: Love
Three things of every kind
Three things of life that once gone, never come back: Time, Words, Opportunity
Three things of life that must not be lost: Peace, Hope, God
Three things of life that are most valuable: Love, Self confidence, Friends
Three things of life that are never sure: Dreams, Success, Fortune
Three things that make a man: Hard Work, Sincerity, Commitment
Three things of life that destroy a man: Wine, Pride, Anger
Understanding
Everybody wants to be understood, nobody wants to understand.
- Documentary film on Doordarshan titled
"Marriages in India: Current Trend"
"Divorce is no longer a stigma, it has become a quick solution to your problems."
- Narrator of the Documentary
Do you also have a Caterpillarean View?
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- (Sarah) Margaret Fuller
or Richard Buckminster Fuller
or Richard Buckminster Fuller
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
Will Rocks
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
News Stories
In current news stories I've noticed a trend
That's gaining increasing exposure;
Situations that formerly came to an end
Now have to be brought to closure.
- Mary Loper
Follow your Dreams with Vigour
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billing
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Digital Divides
If people can get any song they like, why should they listen to their friend's music, or (horrors) listen to the music selected by a group of barflys? By allowing people to have whatever they want, are we destroying that ability to get along?
Understanding
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
-Ronald Searle, artist (1920- )
Fact about Opinion
"Everyone is entitled to his(her) own opinion, but not his(her) own facts."
- Pat Moynihan reality rule
Pat quoted in Robert Sobel's review of
'Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies'
edited by Mark C. Carnes.
Pat quoted in Robert Sobel's review of
'Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies'
edited by Mark C. Carnes.
HowTo Unwrap the day and walk with Attitude?
Think of each day as a gift and unwrap it gracefully.
- saw it written outside a church
Don't walk as if you rule the world but walk as if you don't mind who the hell rules the world. That's called "Attitude".
- Came in an SMS
Married Souls
Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener.
-Unknown
To know more about marriage, just visit this blog entry of Gajodar.
True Indian or True Human Being
"To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice."
- Swami Vivekananda
Compromise
How can you eat sugar instead of sweet chocolate?
Its not about sweetness, its about what you like.
Read this and be a First rate
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
-Unknown (Came in an Email forward)
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Never mistake motion for action.
Family provides identity to all unknowns in the world.
Information consumes Information
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the over-abundance of information sources that might consume it.
-Herbert Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)
God of Atheist
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
-Mohandas K.Gandhi (1869-1948)
Monney matters
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
-Yogi Berra
From Funny Quote of the Day on GMAIL
Blessing for Married couple
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
-Robert Quillen
journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)
So next time when you go to meet a newly wed couple, bless them and say
"May you forgive each other"
Religion and Political Freedom
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
-Samuel James Ervin Jr.
lawyer, judge, and senator, (1896-1985)
lawyer, judge, and senator, (1896-1985)
Reformation
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
-Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)
Freedom from Madness
A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.
-Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957)
Got in A.W.A.D mail with the word potatory
Success - An untapped potential Teacher
Even success is a good teacher if one cares to learn to optimise over it. Rather, one gets carried away by it. So, lessons offered by success are most ignored.
Hunger makes all the difference
The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.
-Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)
Discipline
Discipline is not something one needs to forcefully comply with but to develop a taste for like food, sleep, music etc.
We start failing when we change routines routinely.
(Please do clear the context of `routine' from this)
(Please do clear the context of `routine' from this)
An idea can change the throne
A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
-Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)
Undergraduation
In workouts a football player may bench press 300 pounds, even though he may never have to exert anything like that much force in the course of a game. Likewise, if your professors try to make you learn stuff that's more advanced than you'll need in a job, it may not just be because they're academics, detached from the real world. They may be trying to make you lift weights with your brain.
-Paul Graham in his article titled UnderGraduation
Duty before Right
The most important lesson I learnt in my life was from my illiterate mother who taught me all rights come from a duty well done.
- Mahatma Gandhi in his autobiography
False Belief: A Hindrance to Success
There is a story told of a baby elephant in Tibet tied about the ankle with a rope. The rope would not hold an adult elephant, but it holds the baby tight even as it struggles to free itself. The baby resigns itself to the fact that it cannot move outside of the parameters of the rope, no matter how hard it tries.
Eventually, the elephant reaches adulthood, the same little rope about his ankle. Now, little effort would be required to snap the rope and walk away, but the elephant doesn't even bother to try. He is bound only by his belief that he is unable to escape, which is just as effective as his captors.
Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before? How many of us are being held back by old, outdated beliefs that no longer serve us? Have you avoided trying something new because of a limiting belief? Worse, how many of us are being held back by someone else’s limiting beliefs?
Credit:
- A Blog entry by manogat
- Why Elephants Don't Run, a feature article by Jim Donovan
- Also mentioned @ Ties that bind: How belief creates birth realities
- Elephant Stories
False Empowerment
TheStar.com - Empowerment or dorm porn?:
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, sums it up as "the contradictions and evasions and self-deceptions that pass for empowerment."
Lucky enough to have a hand
Mat kar yakin apne hath ki lakiron pe yaar
Naseeb to unka bhi hota hai jinke haat nahi hote
Don't believe on the lines of your palm, my friend
Even the people without hands also have fate.
-Unknown
Spotted it in the orkut scrapbook of Dua scribbled by Shekhar Prasad.
I think there can't be a greater luck than having two hands.
This blog also reminds me of the song from the hindi movie VIDHAATA.
"Haathon ki chand lakeeron ka, yeh khel hai sab taqdeeron ka.
Taqdeer hai kya mai kya janoo, mai ashique hoon tadbeeron ka"
Governments and Historians
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
This is the first post of mine from w.bloggar tool.
For now, It looks that it will go great.
Let's see. :)
Dead books or Live Minds
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
-Gilbert Highet, writer (1906-1978)
Kind Earth
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
-Douglas William Jerrold
playwright and humorist (1803-1857)
playwright and humorist (1803-1857)
Rocking OneLiners
- Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
- Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
- Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.
- Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.
- Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
- Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
- We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things got worse.
- Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
- Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
- There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.
- Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?
Explanation?
Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.
-Belgicia Howell
Seven Blunders of the World
- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Knowledge without character
- Commerce without morality
- Science without humanity
- Worship without sacrifice
- Politics without principle
-Mahatma Gandhi
Omnipresent CRIME
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
-Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
Useable Research
Science is not for science sake. You do research, publish papers and think the work is over. But I think in developing countries, science is for development. If it doesn’t have impact, it is not useful.
Biologist Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta
Pioneer of the Blue Revolution
Winner of World Food Prize 2005
Pioneer of the Blue Revolution
Winner of World Food Prize 2005
Credit:Indian Express Archive
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