Monday, October 15, 2007
Religion?
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Die for a Cause
The recent happenings (2007) in
I would say that the reason that the people power had failed against the guns were because the people are not ready to shed their blood. Every one needs to have freedom at hardly any cost. A grain must first die to produce more.
All of us would die one day. Why do we preserve our lives for tomorrow? If our lives today could value enough to pay for the freedom of our country or the well-being of our fellow beings, why do we hold it back until its worthless?
Let our lives not be the greed for power and wealth. Let it not be the greed to live long. Let out lives be meaningful and let our death be for the living. Learn to love, love one another. Let’s feel petty for those who are mislead by the world. Let’s not feel angry for those who act insane and stupid because they are drunk with the worldly pleasures.
Let’s be the few who would beat the bush to make a path that a few would find and follow; A path of truth, love, care and concern. Let god fill our hearts with love and make our hearts pure.
Alfie C. Punnoose
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Software Related Sayings
-- TidBITS 654, quoted by Derek K. Miller, via Art Evans
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Software is Too Important to be Left to Programmers, by Meilir Page-Jones.
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Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one. But the house falls down.
Andrew Siwko
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Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: QA testers don't change anything. They just report that it's dark.
Kerry Zallar
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when the cart stops
do you whip the cart
or whip the ox?
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You must be the change
You wish to see in the world
-- Gandhi
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
-- Lao-Tzu
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It is not enough to do your best: you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.
-- W. Edwards Deming
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On the radio the other night, Jimmy Connors said the best advice he ever got was from Bobby Riggs:
* do it
* do it right
* do it right now
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
-- Albert Einstein
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Everybody Knows:
* If you've found 3 bugs in a program, best estimate is that there are 3 more.
* 60% of product cost comes after initial shipment.
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Your problem is another's solution;
Your solution will be his problem.
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Everybody Knows:
If something is worth doing once, it's worth building a tool to do it.
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Everybody Knows:
* If you don't understand it, you can't program it.
* If you didn't measure it, you didn't do it.
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Everybody Knows:
* Discipline is the best tool.
* Design first, then code.
* Don't patch bugs out, rewrite them out.
* Don't test bugs out, design them out.
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The Troops Know
* The schedule doesn't have enough time for maintenance in it.
* A lot of bugs get past the tests.
* Most old code can't be maintained.
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Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm:
Choose two:
* Good
* Fast
* Cheap
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André Bensoussan once explained to me the difference between a programmer and a designer:
"If you make a general statement, a programmer says, 'Yes, but...'
while a designer says, 'Yes, and...'"
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A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.
-- Einstein
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
War and Military Quotes
"On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens."
- Oliver Cromwell's Soldiers ("Humble Representation")
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."
-John F. Kennedy (JFK)
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
-John F. Kennedy (JFK)
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
-John F. Kennedy (JFK)
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- Gen Douglas MacArthur
"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation"
- General Douglas MacArthur
"From now until the end of the world, we and it shall be remembered.
We few, we Band of Brothers.
For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."
- William Shakespeare ("King Henry V")
"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to
be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
- Thucydides
Threes in Life
Word, Time and Chance
Three undeniable things in your life are...
Serenity, Honesty and Hope
Three gems of your life are ...
Love, Self-Esteem and True Friendship
The uncertainties in your life are ...
Dreams, Success and fate ...
Three things that deteriorate your life are...
Arrogance, Liquor and Anger
Kind thoughts are the roots
Kind words are the blossoms
Kind deeds are the fruits
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Fetch what?
Why this blog
I thought of making this blog my open diary. I want to Share my life experience with others and get feed back on those. Its just one life, I want to enjoy it by utilizing it to the maximum extend. when years go by, I will get back to my older posts to see how much I have changed from my ideas, how much I have improved or failed. I love this world which god had made for us though I hate the temptations around us.
sometimes my posts turns out to be religious, sometimes philosophical, sometimes scientific, sometimes life lessons, and sometimes stupid ideas.
This is the beginning.