“People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”
― Seth Godin

Linux World Map

(courtesy: http://www.dedoimedo.com)

Someone told me that Unix is configurable to the point of collapse.   (source: http://goo.gl/KoRpJg)  

“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”     -- Isaac Asimov

Global Gender Gap Index 2013

http://widgets.weforum.org/gender-gap-heat-map/

courtesy:  world economic forum

"Most [people] have the ridiculous notion that anything they do which produces an income is work — and that anything they do outside ‘working’ hours is play. There is no logic to that."
                                                                                       -- Lewis Hyde (Author, Poet and Scholar)

"The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything."
                                                                                  -- Ray Bradbury

"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."  
                                                                                                ---- Vin Scully

If one must know only about one contemporary Indian,
one must know about 'M.K. Gandhi' a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi ('Mahatma' meaning 'Great Souled').

"Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth."
   --Albert Einstein, published in Out of My Later Years (1950).

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
                                -- Emerson Pugh, 1938, in an assessment of brain research.

Infinite space, Infinite meaning, Infinite dimension

" Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living."   -- Anais Nin (1903-1977), Writer

“But in a purely data-driven approach, I can’t explain my decisions. People are so enamored with the data-driven approach that they believe correlation is sufficient.”
     --- Dr. David Ferrucci, I.B.M. researcher who led the development of Watson, an artificial intelligence engine.

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
                                 ― Albert Camus

Mind:  There is so much to do. Don't know where to start from?
Gut:     Start from the starting.

Linux distro with 53 windows managers

I have always been playing with window-managers. Curently i use i3 and i love it. I came across this distro which is live iso with 53 different wm rolled inside it. And they named it Gangbang... ha ha...it contains even the sawfish wm. :) 

Gangbang from Linux BBQ

xkcd

courtesy:http://xkcd.com/1239/

“Life on Bitcoin”: These newlyweds plan to live for 90 days entirely on bitcoin, and film the whole thing (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On June 10, 2013Bitcoin has received heaps of attention recently from tech early adopters and the mainstream media alike. It’s been a wild last six months which has seen the value of the virtual currency grow more than tenfold and then fall half as much, as well as the government…

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Maximum Overdrive .

Education Paradigm

Where to find it?

“People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...

They don't find it," I answered.

And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."


      ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
   ... Voltaire

Remembering early-childhood: #ThatsIndia

Stop CISPA

'Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act' should be stopped

Food or Fuel?

courtesy: http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/135

Bitcoins Explained

"I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet."
                         - Ogden Nash 

E.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists

Jack of All Trades

Jack of All Trades is the way to go...

Bandit Problem

Multi Armed bandit Problem:
Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, it was proposed the problem be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams in 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'

True Love: Soccer

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.   -Paulo Coelho

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
                                   ― G.K.Chesterton

Value of Time

It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

                                                                            -- Hal Sparks 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  

I know it is my fault. It indeed is.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
                                                            --- John Lennon

Truth is not discovered by proofs but by exploration.  It is
always experimental.
                         — Simone Weil, The New York Notebook, 1942

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”    -Swami Vivekananda

He who confronts the paradoxical
exposes himself to reality.
                - Friedrick Durrenmatt (1962)

You are not your mind

Recommendation: Disable Java in Browser.

Why ?    Because serious vulnerability has been confirmed and fix from Oracle is yet to arrive 'shortly'.
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Best Way

"How it is" matters less, what matters more is "How do you see it".

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring