Religion?

Religion is purely man-made to identify and distinguish a group of people with common beliefs and culture. The greed of man to control and rule each others had made religion a hierarchical structure for exercising control and power. Putting god at the top of the hierarchic as a puppet and doing everything in the name of god. Religion enslaves people, restricts freedome

Die for a Cause

The recent happenings (2007) in Myanmar (old Burma) had triggered my thoughts about our purpose and existence. You might wonder why a trouble in Myanmar had cause spark on my head. How could we escape from the responsible of what happens else where on earth. The efforts of the Burmese people to regain freedom are in wane.

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

Software Related Sayings

Abraham Lincoln reportedly said that, given eight hours to chop down a tree, he'd spend six sharpening his axe.

-- 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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