About me

Personally speaking...

*almost* Sunday's child: not so bonnie, cheerfully blithe and the rest of the blah ;)

  • Highlights

    Shotokan karate 1st degree black belt • multiple road trips >2500km • 1st place photo in U-magazine • hiked in all 5 NPs, highest peak in Utah

  • Books

    The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy • Flatland • Foundation novels • Eats, shoots and leaves • Animal farm • The God delusion • The code book • Hacking matter

Quotes

  • "Do not take Life too seriously. You will not get out of it alive."
    - Elbert Hubbard

    Life

  • "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
    - Stephen Hawking

    Life

  • "Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through."
    - Martin Hellman

    Life

  • "The three laws of thermodynamics in their simplest form, are (1) you can't win (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game."
    - Wil McCarthy

    Life

  • "If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, don't drag your feet."
    - A P J Abdul Kalam

    Life

  • "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
    - Dr. Maya Angelou

    Life

  • "Good. And let's also say that change is neither good nor bad, it simply is."
    - Don Draper, Mad Men

    Life

  • "Don't recognize failure. Then there is no failing."
    - Johnny Matthews, Rockford

    Life

  • "All I know is, you only make a once in a lifetime buddy... once in a lifetime."
    - Stymie, The Little Rascals

    Relationships

  • "It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."
    - Bertrand Russell

    Relationships

  • "I bring this up because it is interesting that human Relationships, if there is an independent way of judging truth, can become unargumentative."
    - Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All

    Relationships

  • "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
    - Johann wolfgang von Goethe

    Knowledge

  • "The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise."
    - Preem Palver, Second Foundation

    Knowledge

  • "People are always assuming that everything that is going to be invented must have been invented already. But it hasn't."
    - Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat

    Knowledge

  • "I don't object to the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance."
    - Amy Farah Fowler, The Big Bang Theory

    Religion

  • "If that's where you're going to put your God in this world, then God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
    - Neil deGrasse Tyson, God of the gaps

    Religion

  • "It's not something to say, “I choose not to believe E = mc^2." You don't have that option! When you have an established scientific emergent truth, it is true whether or not you believe in it."
    - Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science in America

    Religion

  • "It ain't time to worry yet."
    - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

    Quips

  • "Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see."
    - Arthur Schopenhauer

    Quips

  • "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
    - Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Quips

  • "विज्ञान प्रचिति, गुरू प्रचिति, आत्म प्रचिति"
    - Anonymous

    Knowledge

  • "गालियां आती हैं जो आप के लब को छूकर, उनकी खुशबू से हम मधहोश हुए जाते हैं"
    - Omi to Lallan Miya, Chashme Buddoor

    Quips

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