Thoughts I liked

Let's live - each day

2010-05-24T05:16:00.001-07:00

Thoughts on Design and User experience

2010-04-29T22:40:00.000-07:00

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site
- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution
- Bertrand Russell

“ When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt
- Henry J. Kaiser

“ One of my favorite business model suggestions for [web] entrepreneurs is to find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that
- Marc Hedlund

“ Because every person knows what he likes, every person thinks he is an expert on user interfaces
- Paul Heckel

“ If the user can’t use it, it doesn’t work
- Susan Dray

“ If the user can’t find it, it doesn’t exist
- HFI button

courtesy : http://quotes.2ia.pl/page/1

From Bhagat Singh's prison diary

2010-03-24T02:39:00.000-07:00

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation hereafter, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity —of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

— From Bhagat Singh's prison diary
(pg 124)

Thanks to The Tribune

wisdom, skill and virtue

2010-01-06T06:13:00.000-08:00

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

To be great

2009-11-03T20:04:00.000-08:00

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great!

3 tips to play a safe game of life

2009-08-04T03:52:00.001-07:00

1. Don't make promises when you are in joy
2. Don't reply when you are sad
3. Don't take a decision when you are angry.

Learn from others mistakes

2009-07-22T00:00:00.001-07:00

Learn from the mistakes of others; We won't live long enough to make them all

judgement

2009-07-09T01:25:00.001-07:00

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done

Worrying

2009-06-09T21:40:00.000-07:00

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?

2008-07-02T01:20:00.000-07:00

"Often, the best marketing doesn't feel like marketing at all." - Seth Godin

Better be running

2008-01-29T08:49:00.001-08:00

Every morning in Africa, a deer wakes up. It
knows, it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run
faster than the slowest deer or else it will starve to death. It
doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a deer. When the sun comes up
you better be running.

-- Anonymous

Always Allow The Boss To Speak First

2008-01-29T04:50:00.001-08:00

Always Allow The Boss To Speak First

A junior manager, a
senior manager and their boss are on their way to a meeting. On their
way through a park, they come across a wonder lamp. They rub the lamp
and a ghost appears.

The ghost says: Normally, one is granted three wishes but as you are three, I will allow one wish each"

So the eager senior manager shouted, I want the first wish. I want to
be in the Bahamas, on a fast boat and have no worries. "Pfufffff and he
was gone.

Now the junior manager could not keep quiet and shouted "I want to be
in Florida with beautiful girls, plenty of food and cocktails."Pfufffff
and he was also gone.

The boss calmly said, "I want these two idiots back right now ." Pfuffff ……….:p

Lesson :- ALWAYS ALLOW THE BOSSES TO SPEAK FIRST

dont hate

2007-04-01T21:23:00.001-07:00

Dont hate anyone in your life. B'coz someone makes u happy somone gives u experience, some one teaches how to face troubles - Mother Teresa

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish - Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Computers

2007-03-29T21:17:00.001-07:00

read him

"I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired
from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient
needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose
faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I
loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true
for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a
large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to
do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is
to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't
settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the
years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
"

"
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other
people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out
your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want
to become. Everything else is secondary."

politically correct

2007-03-28T03:28:00.001-07:00

An example for the art of diplomacy is - telling 'Go to hell' in such a way that the hearer really gets ready for the trip.

Thanks to D. Rajendran, my Product Manager.

judgement and experience

2007-03-27T05:55:00.001-07:00

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

dont marry for beauty

2007-03-14T21:23:00.001-07:00

marrying a person for his/her beauty is buying a house for its paint. (supposedly said by Dr. Abdul Kalam )

dont fill your eyes with tears

2007-03-11T20:50:00.001-07:00

if you miss an opportunity, dont fill your eyes with tears. It may hide yet another opportunity lying in front of you.

pessimist, optimist and opportunity

2007-03-11T20:48:00.001-07:00

Pessimist sees a difficulty in every opportunity.

Optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty.

the real contest

2007-03-06T21:52:00.001-08:00

the real contest is between what you are capable of doing and what you have done.

Measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

seven laws of success

2007-03-06T19:49:00.001-08:00

The seven laws of success according to Herbert W Amstrong

1. fix a Goal for your life.
otherwise you will be ruled by your circumstances

2. Educate/train/prepare yourself to attain your Goal.
you learn not only from books.
your environment can teach you a lot (friends, colleagues, news etc).

3. Keep your health
eat only the necessary food
exercise - walking is best, easy.

4. Drive
work towards your goal.
don't just keep dreaming

5. Manage emergencies
prepare yourself. emergencies can come anytime.

6. Persevere
sufferings don't last but you do. persevere.

7. Keep God your no. 1.
many follow the six steps. they tend to leave the 7th.
your material possesions alone will not give you meaning and happiness at the end of your life.
the author sites the examples of many people he knows in this article.

rose and thorns

2007-03-05T21:00:00.001-08:00

If you desire to blossom like a rose in the garden, you have to learn the art of adjusting with the thorns.

pressure

2007-03-01T20:51:00.000-08:00

pressure makes a perfect diamond.

perfection and simple things

2007-03-01T20:49:00.000-08:00

simple things make perfection.

but perfection is not a simple thing.

do every simple thing with perfection.

HOW A SON/DAUGHTER THINKS OF HIS/HER DADDY AT DIFFERENT AGES

2007-02-28T21:43:00.000-08:00

At 4 Years My daddy is great.
At 6 Years My daddy knows everybody.
At 10 Years My daddy is good but is short tempered
At 12 Years My daddy was very nice to me when I was young
At 14 Years My daddy is getting fastidious.
At 16 Years My daddy is not in line with the current times.
At 18 Years My daddy is becoming increasingly cranky.
At 20 Years Oh! Its becoming difficult to tolerate daddy.

Wonder how Mother puts up with him.
At 25 Years Daddy is objecting to everything.
At 30 Years It's becoming difficult to manage my son.

I was so scared of my father when I was young.
At 40 Years Daddy brought me up with so much discipline.

Even I should do the same.
At 45 Years I am baffled as to how my daddy brought us up.
At 50 Years My daddy faced so many hardships to bring us up.

I am unable to manage a single son.
At 55 Years My daddy was so far sighted and planned so many things for us.

He is one of his kind and unique.
At 60 Years My daddy is great.

Thus, it took 56 years to complete the cycle and come back to the 1st stage!

Have a thought of it !