Truth also comes in various forms.

"For humans, honesty is a matter of degree. Engineers are always honest in matters of technology and human relationships. That's why it's a good idea to keep engineers away from customers, romantic interests, and other people who can't handle the truth."
- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

Quote of the day

Our unity lies in our laughing with each other, not at each other.

- Jug Suraiya (TOI)

Sense of Life

In one of the books of hers, Ayn Rand says - 

To the extent to which a man is mentally active, i.e., motivated by the desire to know, to understand, his mind works as the programmer of his emotional computer-and his sense of life develops into a bright counterpart of a rational philosophy. To the extent to which a man evades, the programming of his emotional computer is done by chance influences; by random impressions, associations, imitations, by undigested snatches of environmental bromides, by cultural osmosis. If evasion or lethargy is a man's predominant method of mental functioning, the result is a sense of life dominated by fear-a soul like a shapeless piece of clay stamped by footprints going in all directions. (In later years, such a man cries that he has lost his sense of identity; the fact is that he never acquired it.)

So True!

Inspirations

A good way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

One of the best ways of learning how to do anything new (including software APIs!) is to get your hands dirty as quickly as possible.

On Travelling

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.”

~Henry Rollins

Courtesy - Renuka Bindu.

“I’m tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race.They simply don’t want to change!”
- Dr. Dvorak

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” 
― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts

a quote

Just happened to hear following quote from a friend whose nature has always amazed me. Found it very inspiring.. :D

 

"Be the kind of woman, who, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the devil says, Oh NO, She's Up !"

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
- Albert Einstien

Quotes

"Change is constant, but it never reverts back."


"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." 
— Dr. Seuss


"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." 
— C.S. Lewis


"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." 
— Elie Wiesel


"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." 
— Marilyn Monroe

Creative People

The only thing that separates the creative from the non-creative is the fact that creative people are not content merely to have the experience, but insist on commenting on it. - EDWARD ALBEE

Quotes from Shantaram

Friend is anyone you don't despise.

If fate doesn't get you a laugh then you just don't get the joke.

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

Khalid Hosseini's quote -

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."


Doesn't this relate to this? I wonder if I'll get so mature; at least once? once?