Quotes of the year - 2012

"At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20,"

Scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini shows why you don't need to worry that another year has gone by so quickly.


"I'll listen to heavy metal in the morning and eat Thir saadam at midnight!"

Bangalore band Thermal and a Quarter's lead singer lives the globalized life to the fullest.

Read Quote of Matthew Roche's answer to How do you know if you have become an adult? on Quora

I'm still a kid, how about you?



"Pay for that pineapple with a credit card and you've probably caused millions of lines of code to execute somewhere."

Joel Spolsky on the importance of engineers. 



And finally.. Saving the best for last.


“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” 

 - John Lennon

Quotes, app and word of the week

“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.”

The writers of an Extreme Programming guide pay tribute to a quote by Bjarne Stroustrup, 1991 the person who gave C++ to the world.

“One may not be Roger Federer, but one can always strive to be Lleyton Hewitt.”

It’s great if you are a natural talent, but being the best us we can be is under our control.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

“If Shahid Afridi is 18, then I’m 24.”

Cricket commentator Geoffrey Boycott isn’t foolish enough take Shahid Afridi’s age at face value.

Thanks to Nikhil ‘Chops’ Anand for this cheeky quote.

APP OF THE WEEK

Well, I thought of sharing some of the apps/tools I use both at work and at home and here we go.

Notepad++

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If you were expecting a mobile app backed by the cloud, I don’t blame you. But I thought of starting with a simple, but awesome app for Windows. It’s a must have for noting down all your to-does and avoid pasting post-it notes all over your workstation.

Thanks to Deepak for the suggestion. 




WORD OF THE WEEK.


Oh yeah, sharing new words we learn isn't a bad idea either, isn't it?


Pivot: 


You can google for the usual definitions of this word. But my favorite is the one in the start-up context by
Eric Ries - "Pivot is a change is strategy, but not a change in vision."  But it's being used way too often and should have probably been voted as one of the words of the year in 2011.


Usage Example: "If you have been reading my posts or you bother scrolling down to the older posts, you'd know that I pivoted."  
:) 

Quotes of the Quarter!

“I looked up the index of The World is Flat in 2004 and there was no Facebook, twitter was just a sound, 3G was a parking spot, the cloud was in the sky, an application was something you filled to go to college and skype was a typo”

Thomas Friedman comes up with my quote of the year on the book, That used to be Us.

For other notable quotes of the year, check out this post on Freakonomics.

“On the Internet, everyone is at least 14.”

Read it somewhere on the Internet. Where else? If you do you want to find out more, check out this page on Time.

 “Experts are full of shit.”

Vinod Khosla is candid as ever in an interview about failure, starting up and education.Ironically, you’ll see a Goldman Sachs ad in the same page J

“Reliability is a consequence of simplicity.”

This quote is a break from tradition, isn’t it? But I put this in as a reminder if I ever visit this page again and was reason enough for me to continue the blog even though it has only one reader as far as I know(apart from me J ) - Nitin.

AND FINALLY

You can find a fantastic collection of cricket quotes from 2011 on this cricinfo page.

Another season of How I met your mother kicks off and managers of football clubs in Manchester have field days

 “Michael Owen doesn’t get to play enough.”

Alex Ferguson puts on the pundit hat and says the injury prone striker should be picked more often after Owen scored two goals for Manchester United against Leeds in the Carling Cup.

Oops…  He seems to have forgotten who selects the team!

“It was the right decision to choose Toure as captain.”

Manchester City not only closely follow their city rivals on the league table, manager Roberto Mancini enjoys taking a leaf out of Ferguson’s book too.  (See previous quote J )

Kolo Toure was banned for taking a banned substance (Apparently, he took his wife’s slim pills by mistake).

“If you have chemistry you only need one other thing, timing. But timing is a bitch.”

How I met your mother’s Robin Scherbatsky (played by Colbie Smulders)  comes up with possibly her best line on the sitcom yet. I haven’t watched all the episodes though. Do you agree with me?  

This video from the episode is a must-watch. 

You enjoyed it, didn't you?

AND FINALLY,

Click here to unveil the the top 100 movie quotes in American cinema.

Do you give a damn?

Quotes galore as Rahul Dravid plays his last ODI, US Open comes to an end and a former hedge fund analyst changes education

“If you put two processors in a phone, it becomes a dual-korean phone.”

Presenter Suresh Venkat speaks about the increasing market share of Korean phone makers such as

Samsung and LG.

“India have to be a bit careful now and score more boundaries!”

Sourav Ganguly defines his version of prudent batting during the middle overs of the last England vs India ODI at Cardiff.  I guess the effects of opening the batting with Virender Sehwag are rubbing off on Sourav.

“It was very strange to do something with social value!”

Educator Salman Khan states how he started his series of educational videos on this TED talk.

BANNER OF THE WEEK

“Sachin is God, Sourav is God on the off-side, Laxman is God of 4th innings, but when the doors of the temple are closed, even god stands behind the wall. We love you Dravid...!

Spotted during Dravid’s innings in the final match of the England – India ODI series.

(Thanks to Suraj Jain for reading it fast enough when shown on TV)

BLAST FROM THE PAST

“Young footballers seem to think they’ve won something in football  when they buy a house and two mobile phones”

Argentinian striker Carlos Tevez disapproves young players’ lack of ambition.

AND FINALLY,

Click here for all the quips from the recently concluded US Open.

Quotes from the Barclays Premier League, Ongoing Corruption Saga and more!

 “Referee Howard Webb has awarded 5 penalties in the 10 games he has officiated at 
Old Trafford. Out of the 10 penalties awarded in the BPL so far, 7 have been missed!

Combining these two stats, I think a penalty will be awarded today and there is a high likelihood that it would be missed!”

Football pundit PJ Roberts makes a bold prediction before the Manchester United vs Arsenal match.

Guess what, he was right. Hats off to the prognostic PJ.

“I am a wonderful actor, but I have to improve my vocabulary.”

Actor Om Puri is modest as ever after making derogatory remarks against MPs.  

“I was not drunk, but I don’t blame the media for their interpretation of my speech.”

Om Puri also inadvertently brings some comic relief in the fight against corruption.

“If you pay a bureaucrat to get work done, it is called bribery. When you pay it after the work gets done, it is called reward!”

A ‘rewarding‘ citizen puts things in perspective after folks from the telephone exchange restore her internet connection.  

“There must be a Wall Street in Bangalore!”

Commentator Harsha Bhogle exults as ‘The Wall’ scores yet another test century.
The voice of Indian cricket might have been criticized for his commentary recently. But it does not deter him from being a regular on this blog. 

Quotes of the Week - August 16th to August 23rd

"But I do think it's stupid in tennis that I mean, in football if someone throws a helmet on the sideline, it's their helmet. We wonder where we lose our ratings battles to the WWE, Monday Night Raw.”
Andy Roddick justifies his rant during a first round defeat to Philip Kohlschreiber at Cincinatti.

“You can’t be stern with your employees. Just see what happens if you employ that tactic with your teenage kids.”
HCL CEO Vineet Nayar explains how he manages to retains 85000+ employees.

“He is a business Gandhi.”
V G Siddhartha of CafeCoffee Day group pays tribute to Narayana Murthy.


BLAST FROM THE PAST

Journalist: “How come you made your debut for Pakistan at a relatively old age of 26?”
A journalist asks Pakistani cricketer Yasir Hameed about his late arrival on the international scene.

Yasir Hameed: “Because it was my real age.”
The cricketer takes a swipe at his teammates who allegedly make false claims about their ages.