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Top 60 quotes according to Luciano Passuello - http://litemind.com/best-famous-quotes/

Some of the ones I like a lot (some are just suppose to be funny) -

You can do anything, but not everything.

—David Allen

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

—Unknown Author

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

—Abraham Maslow (I love Maslow)

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

—Lao-Tze

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

—Virgil Garnett Thomson

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

—Norm Crosby

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

—Kurt Vonnegut

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

—Scott Adams

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.

—Clarence Darrow

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

—Cyril Connolly

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

—André Gide

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

—Aryeh Frimer (Brilliant)

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

—Cyril Connolly

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

—Dame Edna Everage

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

—Erica Jong

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

—Oscar Wilde

Help...

I hate some of the problems I have. Unfortunately I also have the knowledge that these problems are mind and I am the one who is suppose to solve them.

Of course getting help is always a good thing if you can pull it off and in this particular situation I am going to get as much help as I possibly can.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. ...

- George Carlin

Brilliant.



Some more of his lines for your enjoyment -

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. (Hilarious)

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Plans...

Making some plans. Let's hope I can see them through.

There is no point in making plans if you know you are not going to stick to them.

Skin Aging Cream...Imagine a cream that makes you look older

Copy pasting this from my private blog cause it's too funny.


Man I had the most hilarious day in office.

I think this tops all offices 'gone wild with laughter' minutes. And there have been a few - meenakshi sheshadri, meeting khatam ho gayi, make money site, all of it I swear. I bet it's going to be my TOP recruitment moment.

It's one of those - if you weren't there you won't get it but still I bet every time I think of this I am going to laugh.

Gautam and I were going through one of the standard test at work of a candidate. I was wondering how this guy having so much experience in the line could come up with only 2 major targeting ideas. Especially when he was asked for 8. It's not complicated but I won't get technical. For those who understand Search, he had to give sample ad groups. The product was a biotech company website that sells mainly skin care products and their top product being an anti-aging cream.

Anyway so both me and Gautam were talking about how it is that people with experience can't seem to provide a satisfactory number of groups. I had already browsed through some of it and so had Gautam and suddenly he said 'Skin aging cream' lolllllll damn it did take a few seconds to sink it but when it did, oh shit. It like this guy is selling the total opposite of what we want him to sell. Actually he was going to start a whole new industry for aging products of a different kind.

Then I went ahead and started making up ads for the product - the exact opposite of what you would see in an anti-aging ad.

Imagine an ad that said to you - 'Now look as old as your grandma'. Or 'Date your fathers friends' lolllll. Or 'Wrinkles in 15 days. Money back gaurantee'. Of course I got some serious stuff done too. Imagine an ad targeted at a 12-14 year old saying 'Now you can get into that disco'.

Haha Skin Aging Products lol damn the whole notion is only so whacked out.

The we were talking about how you can have skin aging product selling side by side with anti-aging products. So some time people use the aging stuff and then the anti-aging stuff.

Man I can't even imagine how that guy wrote that stuff in the test. Not once which you can say might have been a mistake but multiple times.

Anyway it might not sound funny when you are reading it but it was HILARIOUS. The whole office turned around to look at what we were going nuts about.

Valency Electrons - Balancing +

Got a small Chemistry lecture today. It was interesting. Couldn't help but think that most things we don't understand and therefore hate, come to be because we never understood the basics.

I never understood a valency or the reason for short forms or how the balancing worked in chemical formulas. I use to hate the practical stuff in chem mainly because I didn't understand the foundation of how it all works.

Pretty tragic.

I think it's the same case we Maths.

We desperately need good teachers in schools. Not just those who know their stuff but those who can figure out why other people would not understand that which is so simple to them.

Negative is when there is a need.

Now Playing - The Flipside

I loveeeeeeeee Jeckyll and Hyde.

NGO Hunting - If you got a suggestion, please pass it on...

Well not already hunting but soon enough. From next weekend maybe.

Not sure what sort of volunteer work I would like / would be capable of doing, but definitely have to start looking if I want to get started.

deepalipanjabi.com :)

Got my own domain finally.

Currently my work blog shows up there - deepalipanjabi.com

Sample Universe...

I am alwayssssss skeptical about a research report (all of it) if I find that a result of the study is totally opposite of what I would have believed or assumed.

Now it might be wrong to feel that way but it could also be that the sample selected isn't a very good sample. If the sample doesn't reflect the universe, then there needs to be a special mention of the same.

Sure sometimes it might be true that my perception is that of an urban educated working woman, but seriously somethings are just not believable no matter what perception you have.



For example there is a report on 'what women want' and under 'new age applications picking up' we have social networking and p2p downloads - guess what %ages turn up - 4% and 3% respectively. Now either women don't know what social networking means or they don't know what p2p means. I mean you seriously want me to believe that 4% 'pick up' orkut and 3% pick up limewire. I think that is impossible. Therefore I am assuming that I am reading the report wrong.

And then (let me just take stats for Working Women) - in 'top of mind recall', yahoo gets a 57-59%, meaning 59 of out 100 women 'recall' yahoo but Google gets 20-21%. Amongst college kids, Yahoo has 60% and Google 17%. Now that's just ridiculous even if I discount for Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger. But seriously??? I mean okay maybe again I am misunderstanding what top of mind recall means (they say it is the first website that a respondent recalls - doesn't make sense to me but whatever).

I wonder...

Where did the summer go this year?

Seriously man it's already the monsoons. Where did the summer go?

Clashing clashing...

Just shut up already...

It Rained...

1) Yuck, yuck, yuck - expect for the little thunder and lightning and the smell of wet earth.
(I will never understand how people talk about loving the rain).


2) We are so NOT ready for the monsoons. Thankfully we will get another 2 weeks at most but we are so not having a smooth monsoon this year.



Time to go buy some rain shoes/chappals.
100% sure that the idea of buying a second class pass (train) for a short while is a bad one. So renewal of my first class pass.

Mannnnnnnn already in the 6th month of the year...

How time flies....


It tragic.

Twittering...

Hahah it's insane. Insanely perfect too actually.

Well finally on Twitter. Heard about it a while ago (I think Ashwan told me about it while he was still here) and also got a couple invites but didn't want to get onto another site where I would have to write. (Tried having a wordpress blog but didn't like the UI so stuck to blogspot and only put up 2 posts up there).

But finally decided it might be worth the effort because Twitter is in the news a lot lately for the amount of traffic it is getting. So created login and put up my first 'post'.

The reason it is perfect according to me is because each post can only be 140 characters long and that is good because 1) people can't rant and rant and rant 2) everyone else writes a short post - no issues for me to read.

Why it is insane is because you end up knowing so much more than you otherwise would about others who use twitter. For instance I came to know M (the only person I have on there right now. Will hopefully find more people I know soon) had fractured her hand (a while ago I am assuming since her plaster is off already). Hope it is all good M. (I would also dare to assume she is a left handed person by deducing another of her 'update'). She is into coffee and is a Starbucks loyalist but now enjoys Mcmocha. And a lot more stuff obviously. All this information came in some 20 or so posts (3 minutes tops) while I haven't known any of this from flowing her blog for quite a long time. Freaky but then again what is ever private once it is published on the net?

The User Interface isn't the best in the world but I have to admit that 'twittering' is easy. The site is pretty slow though and UI and speed are two reasons that make me think right away that Google should buy them over hehe.

Yahoo and MSN are out. Neither are masters of either. I mean Panama is so damn slow - it is such a turn off. If yahoo had the volumes or greatly superior traffic I wouldn't even crib. But let me not start, I could go on and on.

I wonder how they will monetize it. I would have to assume ads (I didn't see any yet). Which as an online advertiser I might be glad about (so many more opportunities for 'eyeballs'). What I think they should do though is collect some more demographic information from it's users. Of course there can be contextual targeting based on what the users are talking/writing about but in 140 characters, I don't know if it makes sense unless there is a theme or multiple mentions of the same thing.

Anyway lets see how it goes. Will at least use it for a few more days.

I have to add their home page so doesn't look like a home page.



Haha just figured 30 minutes after I published the post that their 'Create an Account' form is messed up. If you type a name which is unavailable and hit tab and then hit shift tab to go back to the first field of 'Username', the unavailable shows as available. I am sure it won't let you create an account and will come back with the error after you hit submit but it still is 'bad user experience'.