Quotes for the Day

Today's Quotes:-

 

 

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am.)

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

 

     - All from René Descartes, 1596 - 1650

 

 

gracias QotD

Our thing

 

Attribute this to my current mafia fascination as I am reading Mario Puzo's The Godfather.

 

 

 

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Today's quotes are by Voltaire:

 

 

Paradise is where I am.

 

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

 

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!" And God granted it.

 

A witty saying proves nothing.

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Today's Quotes. The theme is possessions.. Thanks again to QotD

 

 

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

 

 

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
     - Natalie Clifford Barney, 1876 - 1972

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Its amazing how reading something obscure on Wikipedia led me to these quotes and I just had to post them.

 

Today's Quotes:-

 

Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.

 

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

 

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say

 

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

 

 

All these wonderful quotes are by the poet and artist Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Free your mind...

..... and your time.

 

Not far from the sagely wisdom put forth by Morpheus in The Matrix comes a good and quick read on how to extend your daily quota of hours.

 

I need to start practicing this stat.

 

 

 

I bet Jack Bauer could certainly use this.

Standing tall

Amazing pics here.

 

 

15 of the worlds best skylines. I pine for the day Bombay's skyline makes this list.

 

 

Lights, camera and lots of action

 

Unbelievable link here. This guy has to have loads of money to build a very detailed Paris 1920 themed theatre UNDER his house.

 

 

Amazing.

A fact is forever

 

The Truth and not a diamond lasts forever.

 

 

All women need to read this link.

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Here are today's quotes. I just realized I haven't posted these in quite a while.

 

 

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

 

- Robert E. Lee

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

- E. B. White

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

- Abba Eban

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

- G. K. Chesterton

 

Seven myths about Islamist Terrorism

 

A good read. Thanks to Foreign  Policy

 

 

 

Awesome pictures

Great stuff from this Argentinian family.

 

Check it out.

MBA Relevence

 

A well written article on how relevant a MBA is in today's world.

 

See here

 

 

The Table

Ok.. people officially have way too much time on their hands.

 

This guy built a big, larger than life periodic table with storage space to store actual samples.

 

 

I wonder how the heck will he get uranium and plutonium in there.

The Game

 

Watched history being made last night. Without a doubt the greatest game of cricket I have ever seen or perhaps even the greatest game ever played.

 

Words won't do justice to the game which is why I'll refrain from describing it.

 

What I will do is link to the scorecard so you can read the analysis for yourself and be in awe.

TGIF

Turning out to be an interesting Friday. First off I realized that during a nasty shake two nights ago at 12:30 am in pitch black darkness, as my car went over a sharp stone it somehow damaged my gearbox... dammit.

 

 

Anyway... took my mom's car to work and what a day its been so far. Added couple of people to the design team and then indulged in some cricket for a while.

 

We're all gonna stay here for a while. Make a night of it. Play some cricket. Intake some food and beverages... basically make a party of it.

 

 

This is how all Friday nights should end.

City of Joy

 

Woweeeeeeee....

 

 

I have been drooling at the news that Caeser IV will finally be released later this year and also looking at screens of an until-now-unheard-of game City Life

 

 

Its a good time to be a gamer.

 

Time to be a geek

 

Awesome find. Top ten watches for Geeks. Geeks are usually people obsessed with technology.

 

 

Man, so many great selections. Can I have one of these?

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Today's Quotes:-

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.   - Beryl Pfizer   Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.   - George Santayana   Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.   - P. J. O'Rourke   Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.   - W. C. Fields

 

 

 

Must see movies

A list of movies I really want to see:-

 

Crash

Syriana

Capote

Munich

Goodbye, Goodnight

 

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Today's Quotes

 

 

Albert Camus - Philosopher

 

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

 

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

 

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

 

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pirates of pretty much everything

An excellent article on how online piracy works.

 

A must read.

 

 

Max on Max off

Cool.

 

I have to say this certainly is cool. I've been trying out the hot underground browser Maxthon for the past few hours and I can guarantee that this thing works.

 

Think of it as a uber-browser. Its overload on most features but my fav thing about it is the amount of memory it occupies. Very VERY less. About 80,000 K less compared to my usual session of Firefox.

 

 

I am actually considering switching (or at least having Maxthon) with Firefox on my pc at work and at home.

Tired

Just got back from work. Its 2 AM.


Dripping with exhaustion


How will I attempt to relax? A couple of rounds of Tiger Woods Golf 2005 on my pc.

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Today's Quotes


People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955