Some more Quotes

These are more of pointless...mostly T Shirt quotes

"Don't argue with idiots, they beat you with experience."

"Out of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most."

"I dont suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it."

"I said no to drugs...but they just wouldn't listen."

"Body under construction."

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from many, it's research."

"The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist."

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

"Always remember you're unique... Just like everyone else"

"Where there's a will... I want to be in it."

"There is too much blood in my caffeine system."

"Complete disorder is impossible."

"Sky is the limit.....the upper one"

"In most part of the world, they drive on the LEFT of the road. In Bangalore, they drive on, what is LEFT of the road."

"Upon the Advice of My Attorney, My Shirt Bears No Message at This Time"

"My learning curve is a circle it keeps coming back 2 where it started."

"Attack life; it will kill you anyway."

Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool on the other.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe,you know more than you actually do.

Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor's degree and a woman gains her master's.

Classic: A book which people praise, but do not read.

Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Ecstasy: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.

Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage ..

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power .

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Opportunists: One who starts having a bath when he/she accidently falls in a river.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either.

College: A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing.

Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY

Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet"

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Divorce: Future tense of marriage.

Too many Quotes

Here is list of list of Quotes in my collection..some are pointless...some are too good...bu I like most of them so just posting it so that I have them somewhere safe :)

*"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."- Robert Frost

*"Courage isn't having the strength to go on- it is going on when you don't have the strength."- Napoleon Bonaparte

*"There are some times when silence has the loudest voice."

*"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain- and most fools do."

*"A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love."

*"The best way to realise your dream: Wake Up!"

*"Dont let your tongue cut your throat."

*"God gave us our faces. We gave ourselves our expressions."

*"If you cannot win, make the fellow ahead of you exert himself to the utmost!"

*"Bad times are good times to prepare for better times."

*"When you do common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

*"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."

"Two things are infinite: universe and human stupidity. I have my doubts about the universe."- Albert Einstein

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."- Mark Twain

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."-Winston Churchill

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Education: something you pay for, but hope you don't get it"

"The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing."

"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."

"We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known."

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."

"My interest in the future is because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

"An honest politician is one who when he's bought, stays bought."

"The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." -- George Bernard Shaw

"If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before."

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world- not even our troubles."

"If you don't have courage, have strong legs."

"Avoid long speeches. The less a man knows, the longer he takes to tell it."

"Try loving your enemies. If nothing else, you'll confuse them."

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Issac Asimov

"He is a dogmatic; because his dogmas are different from mine."

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."- Samuel Butler

"When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane"

"If u fail the first time, remove all evidence that u tried..........."

"War doesn't determine who is right, it determines who is left."

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

"Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"In a World without boundaries Gates and Windows are Useless."

"Two lefts don't make a right... But two Wrights do make a plane..."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand that simplicity."

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do?"

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level."

"Experience is what enables people to commit new errors instead of old ones."

"From the perspective of a lazy lion every leopard is hyperactive."

"The chief obstacle to the progress of human race is the human race."

"There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain
the success of those we don't like?"

"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers."

"It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving."

"Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk."

"Don't worry that the world ends today, it's already tomorrow in Australia!"

"Low expectations and short term goals can do wonders in improving your confidence."

"Never explain- Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway."

"The young man who has not wept is a savage and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

"The wise speak because they have something to say. The fools speak because they have to say something."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."- Winston Churchill

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."- Albert Einstein

"God I want patience, and I want it now!"

"Age dosen't always come with wisdom. Age sometimes come alone."

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen Roberts

"Where is there room in all this for God?" Napoleon asked LaPlace to which he replied "I have no need for that hypothesis."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." -Jonathan Swift

India in Flames

These days India is going through real bad phase. Not exactly in flames everywhere cause some part is drowned in water. But anyway 3 states of India are going through really bad phase.

J&K: It all started with the approval of decision which was pending since quite some time. Congress Govt approved more land for Amarnath Yatra. So far so good. There wasnt really any harm in alloting any land cause it was really need for more convinient Yatra. Trouble started when coalition partner PDP threatened to pull out if land allotment was not cancelled. I dont understand what harm was land allotment causing to anyone? Anyways, Congress as weak as it is cancelled the allotment under pressure. Then BJP came in picture as opportunistic as it is especially in any issuse where cummunal card can be played. It started rallies bandhs and what not in Jammu region which is Hindu stronghold. But the Muslim parties (donno who was leading the agitation) not to be left behind in J&K politics started rallies for no reason whatsoever. They tried crossing LOC and what not. And the most confused between all this mess were the police and security forces already working in such sensitive region. They already have hard time trying to catch up with terrorists, but to stop a crowd of thousands of people from crossing the border is even tougher. The situation is still tense but much better after days of curfew.

Orissa: Trouble started when a Hindutva leader was killed by Maoists. Now maoists are human and they too have a religion (its another matter that they dont follow any of the teachings of any religion). So its possible that the group comprised of persons of adjoining community who are mostly ST turned Christian. Its just a possibility but there is no real proof and any effect whatsoever cause maoists do not fight on religious grounds. Whatever, BJP (VHP RSS whatever) again saw an opportunity for its communal card and with it being the coaliition partner, saw another Gujrat in Orissa! Till now Hindus are hunting down people of christian community. Places destroyed till now (all catholic sposered): The only dispensary in the region, many schools and hostels. Here also the whole region has been clamped under a curfew which may help the situation. Caught in middle is a good man CM Patnaik (donno the correct spelling). Not exactly in enviable position right now.

Bihar: While other two states are burning in flames Bihar has a little excess of water right now. Now one cant really blame anyone for floods but whats pathetic is the amount of help provided. There is scarcity of food and drinking water in the region. Even after so many calamities (natural or mankind whatever) there is still no system in India in place to deal with them efficiently. It is still the resposibility of state government to drop food packets or whatever help is required. Why cant we have a central agency for this very purpose with its own fleet of Helicopters and its own mechanism for getting food ready etc. Instead of Central government "providing" assistance to state government, state govenrment can provide assistance to this central agency. Thankfully till now no blame game has started between centre and state government but am sure it will follow as soon as the situation improves.

Hindi Song in Hollywood Flick

Recently I saw the movie Inside Man (2006). The first thing you see (hear to be more specific) is music from "Dil Se" song "Chaiyya chaiyya". Initially I was confused and thought whether it was some special Indian Edition or what..or thought maybe its just starting music..but no they play the entire song---and not only in starting but also during the end. They have also acknowledged it in the credits. I wasnt able to find any Indian name as producer or any senior member of production but there were 2-3 scenes of a Sikh personal.
Nice movie btw...more so cause of the Indian touch :)

Two Faced Policy on Compensation

http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/04/stories/2008080453130700.htm

The above link is quite an interesting article. Indian Government is demeaning 16 crores for 15 dead labourers. Their death was due to negligent attitude of a private firm.

But from what I remember after reading so many newspapers till date, many deaths occur in India both cause of negligence of Government and private firms but nowhere the compensation provided is more then 5-6 lakhs. Never has the compensation package been anywhere near 1 crore.

I am not saying that India should demand less but I think that compensation policy for deaths due to Government negligence should also be more. I don't know the amount cause life cant be valued but it should not be as lowly as 5 lakhs.

Oil Crisis

The oil crisis has been going on for sometime now and there is no chance of prices coming down anytime soon.
But instead of government trying to protect the poor and the growth of country, its taking steps which cant continue for long.
First question I would like to raise is that why when Diesel and LPG are subsidised, are personal cars allowed to run on it.
Secondly why is the licence same for tempos trucks and sedan taxis?

Here are some steps which I think can handle the problem in such a way that the poor and growth of country is protected.

1. First of all, only petrol vehicles must be granted Private licence of vehicle.
2. Next licence of trucks should be separate which should have no annual fees.
3. For vehicles of mass transport (buses, tempos, autos), fuel should be diesel or CNG (depending upon the area they operate in) and their licence too should have no annual fees.
4. For commercial taxis, all fuel options should be allowed and they should have licence with annual fees.

After this for pricing of fuels the following steps should be taken:

1. Price of Diesel, LPG and kerosene must be fixed at reasonable values.
   
2. Price of Petrol can fluctuate with International prices and can be such that they provide the government with whatever revenue they need.

I know this will be debated by the middle class (myself included), but this is the best option available. To insulate the industry and poor from price hikes.

I am always amazed why personal vehicles with diesel as fuels are allowed when diesel is subsidised by government for industrial growth?

Google==Systematix

http://jrharshath.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/google-is-really-freaky/

Athe above post tells about how all your info what you search, what languages you use, which locations you search most often....Google has everything about you. Do read it!

Continued from thread above---

The most important thing that is missing in above post is Google Earth. If you add GPS device to Google Earth then Google also knows where you travel. You mark your home and you have given away your home address.
Next Google Street Views: Right now the views are static..means pics are taken just once...but it wont be too far when there would be live cmas everywhere. And couple it with Face Recog Software and then Google knows where you are at each moment. It knows what car you drive by just figuring out the car parken in your driveway by Google Earth Pics.

If you read the book The Prometheus Deception (Robert Ludlum) then you will know that it talks about a very similar company named Systematix which also stores a database of everything.
Imagine Google buys out some major banks and hospital records companies and then it know when you fell sick, who you paid and how much. Right now we havent got a single report of Information abuse (atleast I dont know any) but when it happens I am confident it will be a major scandal.

The linux shift

These days around me I am seeing a lot of linux converts (I myself was one a few months back but these days am now back to Windows). They are not full converts cause most of them are just installing linux and hardly ever using it, buts its a step forward (backward maybe :) ).
All of them are switching to fedora which sucks according to me (even though I am a windows fan but in linux i prefer fedora..maybe coz i am only familiar with fedora..watever).
Even guys like dohte and my roomie have installed or trying to (godspeed) install it (though I know that after installing they wont use it for more than 10 hours total).
Obivously installing linux takes it toll (like crashed hard disks, missing drives..for more details ask dohte) but they are still putting up a brave front (that would continue as long as CS works).
Well lets see whether its just a passing phase (herd mentality) or guys are really getting serious about work (not possible).

Solar Eclipse

Here is the pic I took of partial solar eclipse that was visible in Varanasi on 30th July(as far as I remember..maybe +-2 days).
Took the pic and saw it myself by keeping the x-ray sheet in front of the lens(of both eyes and camera..and yeah that x-ray sheet was available thanks to my recent accident :) )



I know that much better pics are available on net (the one of complete eclipse is awesome...but this pic has some personal feelings...I TOOK IT MYSELF!!!)

here is the original unedited pic
link that is:
Original Pic

Lucky or Unlucky?

Sometime back I had a major accident but came out of it with minor injuries(cant say that for my vehicle :) ). As I dont quite belive in God neither pray in any form so I always think that if God really exists then its doomsday for me otherwise its fine. So for every action I think whether I was unlucky or wat and blah blah...
So in this case also I was just thinking whether I was unlucky enough to have met an
accident (waise fault was mine) or lucky enough to have got out without any injuries (just a swollen wrist)..
Still thinking :)