December 2011
4 posts
“That’s one of the best parts of my job, actually,” he said. “We thought long and...”
“Jobs was literally dancing, hips swaying in a joyous mambo around the conference...”
“A lot of times, people don’t do great things, because they aren’t really...”
“Fruit, an apple,” he said. “That simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When...”
November 2011
4 posts
“Apple’s goal isn’t to make money. Our goal is to design and develop...”
– Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc.
“Steve Jobs’ had many parts to his genius. Tweaking products until they...”
– chubot on Hacker News
Best way to judge a candidate
Photo of his collection of programming books.
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
October 2011
1 post
“Do not therefore consider this life as an object of any moment. Look back on the...”
July 2011
1 post
“Mathematics is the only true universal language.”
– Contact (movie)
June 2011
1 post
“The best revenge is massive success.”
– Frank Sinatra
“One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an...”
– Albert Einstein
May 2011
10 posts
“જુદી જિંદગી છે મિજાજે - મિજાજે;
જુદી બંદગી છે નમાજે - નમાજે.
છે એક જ સમંદર,...”
– ‘ગાફિલ’
“કદી ન ઉતરે એવા અસ્સલ ખુમાર છીએ.
અમે તમારા છીએ અને એ પણ ધરાર છીએ!”
– ‘ગાફિલ’
“મારા ઘરની બારી માથી પણ
એક વાદળી પકડી મે
નખશીખા હુ બસ ધવલ ધવલ!!!!
હવે તો...”
“ધરતી પર ઊતર્યા વાદળા આ ધવલ,
જગનાં રંગો બધા કેવા થઈ ગ્યા ધવલ!
ને ધવલ તિમિરે...”
– ‘ઊર્મિ’
“Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a...”
– Morpheus, “The Matrix”
“It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough —...”
– Steve Jobs
“When you’re the janitor,” Jobs has repeatedly told incoming VPs,...”
– Steve Jobs
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident;...”
– Thomas Edison
“The best designers and the best programmers aren’t the ones with the best...”
– 37signals
March 2011
1 post
“Inspiration and wealth will come to you if your goal is to help another person...”
– 37signals
January 2011
1 post
4 tags
Peopleware review
I just finished reading Peopleware, and just realized how many companies are doin’ it wrong! For those who don’t know, peopleware is THE BIBLE for people, productivity and team/happiness management. This is not just my opinion:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading-for-developers.html
...
December 2010
3 posts
“I know what I know, I know what I don’t know, I know what I have to know...”
– Dhaval Trivedi
Some really useful links
They helped me a lot.
Procrastination hacks that work - http://hackvan.com/etext/how-to-get-things-done-despite-procrastination.txt http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/ http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html Living efficiently - http://jonasgalvez.com.br/Writings/Living-Efficiently.html How to become a hacker - http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Learn...
November 2010
1 post
“There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking...”
October 2010
2 posts
“Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have...”
– Eric S. Raymond
Google Reader Recommendations
Coding horror http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/ Daring Fireball http://daringfireball.net/index.xml Derek Sivers http://sivers.org/en.atom Devour http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed DZone Refcardz http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz Geek and Poke http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/index.xml Hacker News Daily...
March 2010
2 posts
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness....”
– Hugh MacLeod
“કે વીરડો રણ રસ્તામાં આવ્યો કે વીરડો અમર છે રે,
કે વીરડો સૌ સંતોને ભાવ્યો કે...”
– ‘સરોદ’
February 2010
2 posts
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– @jessicahische
“I have climbed highest mountain,
I have run through the fields,
Only to be...”
– U2
January 2010
1 post
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...”
– Ann Landers
December 2009
6 posts
Hope
When we feel we have nothing left to give And we are sure that the song has ended When our day seems over and the shadows fall And the darkness of night has descended. Where can we go to find the strength To valiantly keep on trying, Where can we find the hand that will dry The tears that the heart is crying. There’s but one place to go and that is to God And, dropping all pretense and pride, We...
“As Tom was describing all this, my mind was getting back to all I’ve read...”
– Gizmodo
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Don’t be disappointed if the world refuses to help you out. Remember what...”
“People quite often do what seemed impossible before they did it. It is wonderful...”
– C.S. Lewis
“Entrepreneurship exists in the tiny space between madness and genius; and, its...”
– JLM
November 2009
2 posts
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless...”
– AYN RAND
October 2009
1 post
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn...”
September 2009
1 post
“Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep...”
– Albert Einstein
August 2009
1 post
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...”
July 2009
11 posts
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else...”
– Ambrose Redmoon
