tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173748872024-03-05T16:34:07.100+05:30A Matter of Perspective...A collection of quotes I liked..R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-29316630527299900182008-07-30T18:36:00.004+05:302008-07-30T18:42:13.068+05:30Selected Quotations 9....After a looooooooooong time, here comes the next post.... :)<br /><br />Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lou Holtz</span><br /><br />The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Oliver Wendell Holmes</span><br /><br />Never mistake motion for action.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ernest Hemingway</span><br /><br />We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Herman Melville</span><br /><br />The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Walt Disney</span><br /><br />Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Alexander Hamilton</span><br /><br />The less you know, the more you believe.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bono</span><br /><br />I am certain there is too much certainity in the world.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Crichton</span><br /><br />First thoughts are not always the best.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Vittorio Alfieri</span><br /><br />When one teaches, two learn.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Half</span><br /><br />The less you talk, the more you're listened to.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Abigail Van Buren</span><br /><br />Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Louis D. Brandeis</span><br /><br />Every morning, Leave your worries outside gate, Because that's where they pick up the garbage!!!<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Unknown</span><br /><br />The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Oswald Chambers</span><br /><br />Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">John Wooden</span><br /><br />I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jordan</span><br /><br />Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Charles Kettering</span><br /><br />No man was ever wise by chance.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lucius Annaeus Seneca</span><br /><br />The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Valery</span><br /><br />Ask the successfull person how to finish a work?<br />But ask to an experienced person how to start a work?...<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Unknown</span><br /><br />Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">Albert Einstein</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.<br /> -<span style="font-weight: bold;">George Santayana<br /><br /><br /></span>R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-35410023202319103592007-09-24T12:53:00.000+05:302007-09-24T13:05:18.050+05:30Selected Quotations 8...Failure doesn't mean that you are inferior. It means you are not perfect.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Unknown</span><br /><br />Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Unknown </span><br /><br />True friendship comes when silence between two people becomes a language.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />It takes a great man to be a good listener.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Calvin Coolidge</span><br /><br />All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Orison Swett Marden</span><br /><br />It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Mother Teresa</span><br /><br />The way to succeed is to double your error rate.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Thomas J. Watson</span><br /><br />Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Niels Bohr</span><br /><br />Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Mark Twain</span><br /><br />We know what we are, but know not what we may be.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-William Shakespeare</span><br /><br />When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum!<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />Everyone smiles in the same language.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />Romance is like chess - one false move and you're mated.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />No God, No Peace, Know God, Know Peace.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Unknown</span><br /><br />Never complain and never explain.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">- Benjamin Disraeli</span><br /><br />Every noble work is at first impossible.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Thomas Carlyle</span><br /><br />The more we do, the more we can do.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-William Hazlitt</span><br /><br />Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Kahlil Gibran</span>R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-31040511125196458692007-09-22T00:06:00.000+05:302007-09-22T00:16:54.201+05:30Strange Search Companion error :)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-VtTPBxtFxloGjiz0-yzYiuKqPOmUlq6ex8Jd_4uVr4coFq9qt3-bkeI07oeQwxESl7UTPbtBNRN-BaP4fTTBXu9jMR3oOALouT2Ajnc23GKYR0jyScT7p0AAK-qNtPE2IwpfQ/s1600-h/search-comp-error.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-VtTPBxtFxloGjiz0-yzYiuKqPOmUlq6ex8Jd_4uVr4coFq9qt3-bkeI07oeQwxESl7UTPbtBNRN-BaP4fTTBXu9jMR3oOALouT2Ajnc23GKYR0jyScT7p0AAK-qNtPE2IwpfQ/s400/search-comp-error.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112729709023256354" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I dont know what the cryptic message means.<br />Its very odd to press OK on a message box without a message.<br />Maybe words failed to express the severity of the error :)R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-63526201308069249122007-05-31T15:12:00.000+05:302007-05-31T15:15:16.719+05:30Selected Quotations 7...<span style="font-family: georgia;">Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Andre Gide</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Bill Cosby</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Anatole France</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">That government is best which governs least. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Thomas Paine</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Herbert Hoover</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Katharine Hepburn</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-P. J. O'Rourke</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Oprah Winfrey</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Jean Rostand</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"># “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"># “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected."</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"># "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 other’s 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."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Steve jobs, Apple Inc.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Christopher Morley</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life is half spent before we know what it is.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -George Herbert</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Soren Kierkegaard</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Change your thoughts and you change your world.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Norman Vincent Peale</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Doug Horton</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Alexis de Tocqueville</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Rita Mae Brown</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Germaine Greer</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The possible ranks higher than the actual.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Martin Heidegger</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Woodrow Wilson</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">-Malcolm Forbes</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> -Daniel J. Boorstin</span>R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1174993445720584422007-03-27T17:30:00.000+05:302007-03-27T17:34:05.730+05:30Selected Quotations 6...Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Dale Carnegie</span><br /><br />Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Edward Bulwer-Lytton</span><br /><br />Silence is a source of great strength.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Lao Tzu</span><br /><br />When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-John Ruskin</span><br /><br />People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -James A. Baldwin</span><br /><br />Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Blaise Pascal</span><br /><br />Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Henri Frederic Amiel</span><br /><br />One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Helen Keller</span><br /><br />You must do the things you think you cannot do.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Eleanor Roosevelt</span><br /><br />A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">- Francis Bacon</span><br /><br />He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">- Thomas Carlyle</span><br /><br />Justice is truth in action.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">- Benjamin Disraeli</span><br /><br />I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">- Thomas Jefferson</span><br /><br />The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">- Henry David Thoreau</span><br /><br />A Tibetan Lama was being monitored on a brain scan machine by a scientist wishing to test physiological functions during deep meditation. The scientist said - "Very good Sir. The machine shows that you are able to go very deep in brain relaxation, and that validates your meditation". "No", said the Lama, "This (pointing to his brain) validates the machine!".<br /><br />To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Bertrand Russell</span><br /><br />Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Theodore Roosevelt</span><br /><br />A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Bo Bennett</span><br /><br />Responsibility is the price of freedom.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Elbert Hubbard</span><br /><br />Patience is the companion of wisdom.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Saint Augustine</span><br /><br />It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Miguel de Cervantes</span><br /><br />Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Albert Schweitzer</span>R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1161019877544413042006-10-16T22:54:00.000+05:302006-10-16T23:01:17.556+05:30Selected Quotations 5 ....Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Mark Twain</span><br /><br />It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Thomas Huxley</span><br /><br />The way to succeed is to double your error rate.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Thomas J. Watson</span><br /><br />Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Rita Mae Brown</span><br /><br />The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Dante Alighieri</span><br /><br />Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Wernher von Braun</span><br /><br />The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Paul Valery</span><br /><br />Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Marie Curie</span><br /><br />The less you know, the more you believe.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Bono</span><br /><br />A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Charles Darwin</span><br /><br />Ability is a poor man's wealth.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-John Wooden</span><br /><br />Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Alexander Hamilton</span><br /><br />Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Bob Marley</span><br /><br />After all is said and done, more is said than done.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Aesop</span><br /><br />No man is a failure who is enjoying life.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-William Feather</span><br /><br />The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Samuel Smiles</span><br /><br />Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Arthur C. Clarke</span><br /><br />Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> -Gertrude Stein</span><br /><br />The beginning is always today.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Mary Wollstonecraft</span><br /><br />I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Woodrow Wilson</span><br /><br />About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Herbert Hoover</span><br /><br />The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Socrates</span><br /><br />Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-William Shakespeare</span><br /><br />Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Dag Hammarskjold </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Thats it for today.........</span>R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1159360363713196712006-09-27T17:55:00.000+05:302006-09-27T18:04:46.780+05:30The Man who saved the World....<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">been away from blogging for a long time, here is my next post....</span></span><br /><br />This is a wikipedia article about a man, who prevented a Nuclear War (World War III), by taking a good decision based on his intuition.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov</a><br /><br /><br />Thats it for today...R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1151136818264153762006-06-24T12:41:00.000+05:302006-06-24T13:43:38.276+05:30Selected Quotations 4....Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.<br /> - Franklin P. Jones<br /><br />On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.<br /> - Tom Lehrer, lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90<br /><br />A lie told often enough becomes the truth.<br /> - Lenin<br /><br />Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.<br /> - Robertson Davies<br /><br />Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that is wrong.<br /> - Muhammad Ali<br /><br />All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.<br /> - William Faulkner<br /><br />If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.<br /> - Woody Allen<br /><br />The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.<br /> - John McEnroe<br /><br />I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundreth time I am right.<br /> - Albert Einstein<br /><br />Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.<br /> - George Washington Carver<br /><br />Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.<br /> - Truman Capote<br /><br />Never tell everything at once.<br /> - Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life<br /><br />Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.<br /> - Euripides<br /><br />Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.<br /> - Louis L'Amour<br /><br />The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.<br /> - Peter Ustinov<br /><br />After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.<br /> - Aldous Huxley<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Thats it for today.........</span>R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1150278805984918902006-06-14T15:01:00.000+05:302006-06-14T15:23:26.000+05:30Selected Quotations... Part 3Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes.<br /> -Oscar Wilde<br /><br />The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.<br /> -James A. LaFond-Lewis<br /><br />Courage is grace under pressure.<br /> -Ernest Hemingway<br /><br />Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.<br /> -Theodore Roosevelt<br /><br />It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.<br /> -Albert Einstein<br /><br />Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.<br /> - Rich Cook<br /><br />My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six more.<br /> -Walter Matthau<br /><br />Smartness runs in the family. When I went to school, I was so smart my, teacher was in my class for five years.<br /> -George Burns<br /><br />Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.<br /> -Dwight D. Eisenhower<br /><br />If you can't convince them, confuse them.<br /> -Harry S. Truman<br /><br />Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.<br /> -Confucius<br /><br />If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.<br /> -Chogyam Trungpa<br /><br />If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.<br /> -Maya Angelou<br /><br />Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.<br /> -Charles de Gaulle<br /><br />What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.<br /> -Aristotle<br /><br />Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.<br /> -Rodan of Alexandria<br /><br />Intelligent is a term used to describe someone who agrees with you.<br /> -Unknown<br /><br />All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.<br /> -Orison Swett Marden<br /><br />Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.<br /> -John F. Kennedy<br /><br />An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.<br /> - Charles F. Kettering<br /><br />Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.<br /> - Cyril Connolly<br /><br />I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.<br /> - Tom Stoppard<br /><br />The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.<br /><br />All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.<br /> -Walt Disney<br /><br />Nothing will work unless you do.<br /> -Maya Angelou<br /> <br />Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.<br /> -Muhammad Ali<br /><br />Be who you are and be that well.<br /> -Saint Francis de Sales<br /><br />What you are will show in what you do.<br /> -Thomas A. Edison<br /><br />The harder I work, the luckier I get.<br /> -Samuel Goldwyn<br /><br />Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.<br /> -Albert Einstein<br /><br />Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.<br /> -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.<br /> -Johnny Carson<br /><br />The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.<br /> -Friedrich Nietzsche<br /><br />Prosperity is the best protector of principle.<br /> -Mark Twain<br /><br />Character develops itself in the stream of life.<br /> -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">and to end with, here is a wonderful quotation,</span><br /><br />We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.<br /> -George Bernard Shaw<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Thats it for today.........</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1148287735882034712006-05-22T13:54:00.000+05:302006-05-22T14:18:55.896+05:30A freeware for all those who are interested in chemistry...Recently I was going through a site and saw a freeware which reminds me of my school days.<br />A Periodic Table v2.5 software. For people who have studied chemistry, they would definitely know the use of periodic table.<br /><br />Here is some details about the application:<br /><p>Periodic Table is an application containing all the elements of the Periodic Table along with images of the elements in their natural state.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4880/1673/1600/PT.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4880/1673/320/PT.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="288" width="99%"><tbody><tr><td height="10"><span class="style4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Features include:</span> </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/spacer.gif" height="10" width="10" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="style4" height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Detailed information on each element</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="style4" height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Images for each element (126 images in total)</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="style4" height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Glossary</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="style4" height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Graphs of important element properties </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="style4" height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Biographies for the element discoverers</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="style4" height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Interactive display allows you to view the states of the elements at any temperature (from 0 - 6000k)</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="style4" height="10"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />XP style support</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="16"><span class="style4"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Search through all of the element, biography, isotope and glossary pages. </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="16"><span class="style4"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Electron shell diagrams of each element</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="16"><span class="style4"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Atomic width diagram</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="16"><span class="style4"><img src="http://paulalanfreshney.com/images/bluecube.gif" height="8" width="12" />Element names and the majority of the applications buttons are now available in eight different languages. Unfortunately there is just too much text for me to translate (92000+ words).</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Can be downloaded for free:<br /><a href="http://paulalanfreshney.com/education/pt/">http://paulalanfreshney.com/education/pt/</a><br /><br />Good work ... Paul.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Thats it for today.........</span><br />set course for the next "post"..., Engage!!!R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1141654499670530132006-03-06T19:41:00.000+05:302006-03-06T19:44:59.680+05:30Quotations..... Part 2Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.<br /> - George Bernard Shaw<br /><br />Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.<br /> -Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.<br /> -Vince Lombardi<br /><br />If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.<br /> -Vince Lombardi<br /><br />Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.<br /> -Anonymous<br /><br />An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.<br /> -Fred Allen <br /><br />Art is science made clear.<br /> - Jean Cocteau<br /><br />Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.<br /> - Elbert Hubbard<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Thats it for today.........</span><br />set course for the next "post"..., Engage!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1140870530498222482006-02-25T17:48:00.000+05:302006-02-25T17:58:50.513+05:30Quotations.....<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Here are some nice quotes,</span><br /><br /> Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. <br /><br /><br /> It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. <br /><br /><br />Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.<br /> -- Andy Gibb<br /><br />The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.<br /> -- Douglas Adams<br /><br />The computing field is always in need of new cliches.<br /> -- Alan Perlis<br /><br />Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist,<br />but you have ceased to live.<br /> -- Mark Twain<br /><br />Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is a<br />superstition. It does not exist in nature -- Helen Keller<br /><br />I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're<br /> dead.<br /> -- Samuel Goldwyn<br /><br />In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest<br />proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen<br />from time to time.<br /> -- Edward P. Tryon<br /><br />Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.<br /> -- David Letterman<br /><br />How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.<br /> -- Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />Time makes more converts than reason.<br /> -- Thomas Paine <br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Thats it for today.........</span><br />set course for the next "post"..., Engage!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17374887.post-1128279560648174642005-10-03T00:25:00.000+05:302005-10-03T00:30:07.230+05:30Hello All !!!!<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Hello All. This is my first post, I plan to post a lot of interesting things in my upcoming blog posts. Some of them fun, some of them technical and some of them something else :).</span> </span>R. Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11427125497919642348noreply@blogger.com0