Cogitation

Live or Dead, Full or Flat, Pain or Gain

Are we - and all living beings - just survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes, as Richard Dawkins states? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?

- gmail status of sachin anklekar

World is flat because the cunning people have punctured it.

- Rahul Gupta

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts for ever.

- Lance Armstrong, 5 time Winner of Tour De France
gmail status of Pravin Shinde

Time is a great teacher; what an year teaches you days didn't know.
- A dialogue from "Shadows in the Sun"

Need of the Hour

It may or may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done.

- Unknown (picked up from cowsay)

Truth lessens the load on working memory

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

page by page

Many pages make a thick book.

-- fortune cookie

- Unknown Author

Quack Quack

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

-- Mark Twain

Spirit - The toughest metal

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

- Bernard Williams

(gmail status of sawani)

Don't let worries worry you

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.

- Corrie ten Boom

Successful Failure

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

- J.P. Donleavy

Its Life! not a balance machine

"There is no such thing as work/life balance—there is only life. You don't have to be the last one at the office every night, and you don't have to change every diaper. Make the choices you believe in your heart are right, and make no apologies." - Mary Ann Byrnes

Manimal

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals and we must respect our fellow animals.

- Richard Branson

The Auto Audience

Writing used to be more about style and personality than structure.

Now, addressing an audience of robots, spiders, applets, servers, and content management applications, as well, as, oh yes, people, we are more constrained by the need to follow a standard model with absolute consistency, for fear of confusing the software. Humans can handle inconsistency, but programs cannot. Meet your new reader: a few lines of code.

- Web Writing That Works

Feel them but not let them fool you

Terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken—only felt and endured.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

Wake up, Waters await! Swim to them, shores wait!

Slumber can make you a perfect blind man when opportunities are so close. Laziness can make you think the right opportunity has not come yet. But action will make you realize that, the least opportunity can shower you with many blessings. Wake up from your slumber because opportunities are all around you. Be active, leave the laziness behind and grab the opportunities.

Written in 2013 by Albert Douglas Quayson --- Ghana

While swimming, the depths don't matter. Remember, keep swimming, the shore will come to you."

Written in 2013 by Joyal Mehta --- India

oh god i feel lucky

whenever you meet good people, you feel the presence of some power helping you being lucky.

whenever you meet not-so-good people, you feel the presence of some power testing your strength in unlucky times.

- me

The curious case of a Bicycle

Bicycle is a curious vehicle, its passenger is its engine.

- John Howard

Perfection, Fear and Story of life

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger.

- Donald Miller

Follow Passion, Delay Judgement

Have a passion for Doing something rather than Being a title on a business card.

- Steve Blank (Facebooked by Ankit Jain)

Delay your judgements as long as possible.

- a wise friend from NCST (Facebooked by Apoorv Sharma)

satyam shbivam sundaram

batane se baat hi parayi hoti hai

paraye apne nahi hotey

- satyam shbivam sundaram, movie

Good Day

A day lived without exchange of advice is a good day.

- gmail status of shantanu ghosh

Conquer Your Inner Everest

It's not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

Life

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

- Benjamin Franklin

Bad Silence

The worst thing that one can do is not to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – and never knowing.

- David Viscott

Work to get the work done

Nothing will work unless you do!

- Maya Angelou

Apre un long temps

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

- Michael Hyatt

Make it large, Work out larger

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

Apo logy

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

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

- Michael J. Fox

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

~ J. Brotherton

Forget, to Annoy

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde
Thanks to eastcoast for sharing on her webpage

Un known

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

Accursed be he that first invented war.

- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Accused be the society who made me.

- Attitude of non-regretting accused

Rationale

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

- Naveen Kumar

Quote Clamour

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

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

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

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

- Ralph Johnson

Air Insane

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

- Co-authors Rohit Agrawalla,Kushlendra Mishra

Oh my God-men

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

- Naveen Kumar

in a lighter vein ...

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

Last Benchers

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

- A. P. J. Kalam

Kipling's Fears

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

- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

T-Shirt Quote

I may be nobody but nobody can be me.

- site-admin ;-)

Mishranomics

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

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

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

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

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (source link)

kabi rabi

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

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

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.

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

- Robert Lewis

AOL

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

- Henry Ellis

right quotes, right place

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

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.

- abhishek
- shared by ankit garg

Dream Dynamite

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

- peeyush chomal

great and small, same and different

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

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

- unknown

madness explained

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

- patrick's version of a proverb

Bugging quote

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

- Kushlendra Mishra

Gravity of earthy love

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

- Albert Einstein
Thanks to rohit for sharing it

Al oh we eee

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

- Mrinal Kanti Rai

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

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

- Spanish proverb

Chinese for a taste change ;-)

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

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

Anyone who fights for the Future lives in it today.

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

liberal education

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 ;)

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Mack R. Douglas

Healthy reminder

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

"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

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

- Instructions for Life by Dalai Lama

Who You are?

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

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

- Oscar Wilde

From Shashi, The Tharoor

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

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

If you pay peanuts, you will only get monkeys.

- former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew

world of reality

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

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

- Pritish Nandy's friend

Ignorance

Religion and science have a common ancestor - Ignorance.

- A.C. Grayling

one of its kind separation

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

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

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

- peeyush chomal

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

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

Proudest verbs

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

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

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