“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.