Quotes

Whats better than?

Rai Umair — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 03:33:00 GMT

Live your life better, always ask yourslefd the question: Whats better than?

What's better than focusing on the negative? Focus on the positive. (If you do this you are happy being!)
What's better than working hard? It's working smart. (Oh yes! Learn to beat the system, think different.)
What's better than dreaming? Imagining. (A Disney term combination of Imagining stuff and Engnearing)
What's better than doing something for yourself? Doing something for your country.
What's better than a vision? A cause. (When Vision fights wih cause, Cause always prevails...)
What's better than a long speech? Definitely, a short one. (That's why you read this in a snap!)

(condensed via: Anil, enjoy his full version taken from a speech)

Interesting Quotes (Part 3)

Rai Umair — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:15:00 GMT

The last of the three posts on quotes alone, it’s the icing on cake, real witty quotes from a developers/geeks perspective, read and enjoy.

Quotes For/From Programmers

- C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit.

- You ASCII stupid question, you get stupid ANSI

- Damn the documentation, full speed ahead!

- Real Programmers don't need comments -- the code is obvious!

- He who laughs last probably made a backup - Rai Umair

- If at first you don't succeed, call it v1.0!

- COBOL.....(C)ompiles (O)nly (B)ecause (O)f (L)uck

- COFFEE.COM not found: A)dd more, R)eheat F)reak out

- If at first you don't succeed, work for Microsoft

- Hackers: We've got what it takes to take what you've got!- Rai Umair

- 99 percent of programmers give the rest a bad name.

- Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything.

- Life would be much simpler if we could just look at the source code

- I saw, I bought, and I pirated. - Rai Umair

- Constants aren't; variables don't

- I had a life once...now I have a computer. - Rai Umair

- If you can't fix a bug - write it in the documentation as a feature

- Avoid Computer virus - practice safe HEX!

- My computer's sick. I think my modem is a carrier

Interesting Quotes (Part 2)

Rai Umair — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:12:00 GMT

This is the second installment to the quotes series. This is not as serious as the quotes I shared in my last post but read between the lines and you will find that the meaning goes much deeper.

Quotes For/From Rest of the world

- You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

- You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, and then used against you.

- Creativity: Not referencing your sources .

- Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control!

- If a = b and b = c, then we've got a messed up alphabet.

- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

- He, who laughs last, thinks slowest.

- Romance is like a game of chess - one false move and you're mated!

- Income Tax Dept.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got!

- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

- Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

- A fool and his money are soon partying.

- Bumper Sticker: You're driving a car. It isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.

- Cats, proof that eating and sleeping isn't all bad.

- Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine

- Choose heaven for climate, hell for society.

- A man may be a fool and not know it - but not if he is married

- Remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty?

- Missing dog and wife. Reward for dog

Interesting Quotes (Part 1)

Rai Umair — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:10:00 GMT

I like to study what others have to say about things that interest me and I have list of humorous, interesting and inspirational quotes from around the web. Here in the coming three posts I will share some of the quotes with my readers. Starting with:

Serious Inspirational Stuff

- A truly wise person knows that he knows not.

- I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

- Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.-

- You're perfect, yes, it's true. But without me you're only you

- You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

- Children disgrace us in public by behaving just like we do at home

- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

- You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

- You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

- A sin is two sins when it is defended

- Compromise is always wrong when it means sacrificing a principle.

- Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius

- You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?

- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand Years.

- Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

- God must love the common man; After all, he made so many of them

- Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment!

- Good students don't cheat they verify.

- Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps

- Guns don't kill people (People kill people).

- Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

- Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

- Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

- Don’t take your failures to your heart, and don’t take success to your head.

- Hypertext is more significant to society than the invention of the printing press and the alphabet.

- I'm not arrogant, I'm just better than you.

- If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

- If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

- If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

- If the going seems easy, you're going downhill.

- If you do a job too well, you will get stuck with it.

- If your mind goes blank, don't forget to turn off the sound

- It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole

- It isn't what you know that count’s; it’s what you think of it in time.

- Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime??

- A conscience does not prevent sin, it only prevents you from enjoying it.

- Critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste

- A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

- Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused

- Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart.

- All constants are variables

- If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Bjarne Stroustrup On C and C++

Rai Umair — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:00:00 GMT

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

John Gall on Systems

Rai Umair — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:24:00 GMT

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked…A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” — John Gall in Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How hey Fail

A Billion Dollars and More

Rai Umair — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:13:00 GMT

One thing we would all agree upon is having that much financial muscle; a really nice piece of dialog I remember from one of the God Father movies (my favorite movies infact) is that ‘Finance is a gun and Politics is the Art Of Knowing when to pull the trigger’.

Well Forbes latest Billionaire List is out and Bill Gates with $ 46.82 billion tops again, but what I really like about the new list is that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are on the list too, for people who don’t know who the two our… one word for them ‘Google’. I adore google, it helps me find what I need when I need it and amazingly Yahoo search is a lot better now then it used to be, I guess yahoo will content sharply with Google, MSN Search well now that they have switch the back end from Google to Inkatomi that they now already own. Lastly Google is going all IPO and that's a sure prediction and Surprise, surprise! iIt's also coming up with an email service.

One day I want to see my name up with the giants till then I better keep shut and work more. Just in case you happen to read this and feel interested let me know.

Samuel Johnson On Knowledge

Rai Umair — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:06:00 GMT

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information about it....

I guess Samuel Johnson was thinking about the web when he said this. In todays world of information overload, finding let alone knowing the requisite stuff is hard if not impossible. Good web search tatctics and ultra sharp memory is needed to recall the latest and greatest around us. Plus now is the best time to leave the balance and catch on with the focus, specailization is the name of the game. Do share your views on this.

Alex Stepanov's Quote On Software

Rai Umair — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:28:00 GMT

The reason that data structures and algorithms
can work together seamlessly is ... that they
do not know anything about each other. - Alex Stepanov