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Best of Steve Jobs Quotes
Steve Jobs Quotes
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| Stay hungry, Stay foolish. -Steve Jobs |
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| Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. -Steve Jobs |
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| Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? -Steve Jobs |
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| If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I’m about to do today? -Steve Jobs |
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| And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. -Steve Jobs |
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| Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. -Steve Jobs |
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| Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me. -Steve Jobs |
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It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. -Steve Jobs |
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| It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. -Steve Jobs |
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| My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better. -Steve Jobs |
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| Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. -Steve Jobs |
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| When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. -Steve Jobs |
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| Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'. -Steve Jobs |
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That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains. -Steve Jobs |
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My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Steve Jobs |
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Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people. -Steve Jobs |
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. -Steve Jobs |
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| We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. -Steve Jobs |
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I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. -Steve Jobs |
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| I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products. |
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It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people. -Steve Jobs |
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| My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. -Steve Jobs |
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Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being WalMart. We make it by innovation. -Steve Jobs |
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| To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. -Steve Jobs |
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| I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. -Steve Jobs |
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| I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. |
Steve Jobs
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| Steve Jobs introducing the new MacBook Air |
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| Steve Jobs Introducing iPhone 4 |
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the
After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006. In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system, Copland, Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Steve Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.
As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board.
He died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor on October 5, 2011. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.
In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the
After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006. In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system, Copland, Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Steve Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.
As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board.
He died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor on October 5, 2011. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Charles Dickens Quotes
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
To a young heart everything is fun.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her.
Discipline must be maintained.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
To a young heart everything is fun.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her.
Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickensis much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.
Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for
The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.
As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.
He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.
Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for
The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.
As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.
He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
Charles Dickensis
Charles Dickensis much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.
Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for
The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.
As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.
He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.
Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for
The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.
As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.
He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
Best Quotes of Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwinwas a British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire into a wealthy and well-connected family. His maternal grandfather was china manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, while his paternal grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, one of the leading intellectuals of 18th century England.
Darwin himself initially planned to follow a medical career, and studied at Edinburgh University but later switched to divinity at Cambridge. In 1831, he joined a five year scientific expedition on the survey ship HMS Beagle. At this time, most Europeans believed that the world was created by God in seven days as described in the bible. On the voyage, Darwin read Lyell's 'Principles of Geology' which suggested that the fossils found in rocks were actually evidence of animals that had lived many thousands or millions of years ago. Lyell's argument was reinforced in
Darwin's own mind by the rich variety of animal life and the geological features he saw during his voyage. The breakthrough in his ideas came in the Galapagos Islands, 500 miles west of South America. Darwin noticed that each island supported its own form of finch which were closely related but differed in important ways.
On his return to England in 1836, Darwin tried to solve the riddles of these observations and the puzzle of how species evolve. Influenced by the ideas of Malthus, he proposed a theory of evolution occurring by the process of natural selection. The animals (or plants) best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on the characteristics which helped them survive to their offspring. Gradually, the species changes over time.
Darwin worked on his theory for 20 years. After learning that another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, had developed similar ideas, the two made a joint announcement of their discovery in 1858. In 1859 Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'.
The book was extremely controversial, because the logical extension of Darwin's theory was that homo sapiens was simply another form of animal. It made it seem possible that even people might just have evolved - quite possibly from apes - and destroyed the prevailing orthodoxy on how the world was created. Darwin was vehemently attacked, particularly by the Church. However, his ideas soon gained currency and have become the new orthodoxy.
Darwin died on 19 April 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire into a wealthy and well-connected family. His maternal grandfather was china manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, while his paternal grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, one of the leading intellectuals of 18th century England.
Darwin himself initially planned to follow a medical career, and studied at Edinburgh University but later switched to divinity at Cambridge. In 1831, he joined a five year scientific expedition on the survey ship HMS Beagle. At this time, most Europeans believed that the world was created by God in seven days as described in the bible. On the voyage, Darwin read Lyell's 'Principles of Geology' which suggested that the fossils found in rocks were actually evidence of animals that had lived many thousands or millions of years ago. Lyell's argument was reinforced in
Darwin's own mind by the rich variety of animal life and the geological features he saw during his voyage. The breakthrough in his ideas came in the Galapagos Islands, 500 miles west of South America. Darwin noticed that each island supported its own form of finch which were closely related but differed in important ways.
On his return to England in 1836, Darwin tried to solve the riddles of these observations and the puzzle of how species evolve. Influenced by the ideas of Malthus, he proposed a theory of evolution occurring by the process of natural selection. The animals (or plants) best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on the characteristics which helped them survive to their offspring. Gradually, the species changes over time.
Darwin worked on his theory for 20 years. After learning that another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, had developed similar ideas, the two made a joint announcement of their discovery in 1858. In 1859 Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'.
The book was extremely controversial, because the logical extension of Darwin's theory was that homo sapiens was simply another form of animal. It made it seem possible that even people might just have evolved - quite possibly from apes - and destroyed the prevailing orthodoxy on how the world was created. Darwin was vehemently attacked, particularly by the Church. However, his ideas soon gained currency and have become the new orthodoxy.
Darwin died on 19 April 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Best Quotes of Chanakya
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
People's Fury is above all the furies.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere.
Education beats the Beauty and the Youth.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches has his heaven here on earth.
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
It is better to have only one son endowed with good qualities than a hundred devoid of them.
For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.
Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning,
without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words -- fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
People's Fury is above all the furies.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere.
Education beats the Beauty and the Youth.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches has his heaven here on earth.
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
It is better to have only one son endowed with good qualities than a hundred devoid of them.
For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.
Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning,
without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words -- fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
Chanakya Biography
Chanakya (c. 370–283 BCE) was an Indian teacher, philosopher and royal advisor.
Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age. He is widely credited for having played an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire, which was the first empire in archaeologically recorded history to rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Chanakya served as the chief advisor to both Chandragupta and his son Bindusara.
Chanakya is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthasastra. As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to Classical Economics. Chanakya is often called the "Indian Machiavelli", although his works predate Machiavelli's by about 1,800 years.His works were lost near the end of the Gupta dynasty and not rediscovered until 1915.
Chanakya’s birthplace is a matter of controversy, and there are multiple theories about his origin. According to one theory, he was born in Pataliputra or a town near it, Kusumpur. According to the Buddhist text Mahavamsa Tika, his birthplace was Taxila. The Jain scriptures, such as Adbidhana Chintamani, mention him as a Dramila, implying that he was a native of South India. According to some other Jain accounts such as Hemachandra’s Parishishtaparva, Chanakya was born in the Canaka village of the Golla region, to a Jain Brahmin named Canin and his wife Canesvari. Other sources mention his father’s name as Chanak and state that Chanakaya’s name derives from his father’s name.
Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age. He is widely credited for having played an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire, which was the first empire in archaeologically recorded history to rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Chanakya served as the chief advisor to both Chandragupta and his son Bindusara.
Chanakya is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthasastra. As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to Classical Economics. Chanakya is often called the "Indian Machiavelli", although his works predate Machiavelli's by about 1,800 years.His works were lost near the end of the Gupta dynasty and not rediscovered until 1915.
Chanakya’s birthplace is a matter of controversy, and there are multiple theories about his origin. According to one theory, he was born in Pataliputra or a town near it, Kusumpur. According to the Buddhist text Mahavamsa Tika, his birthplace was Taxila. The Jain scriptures, such as Adbidhana Chintamani, mention him as a Dramila, implying that he was a native of South India. According to some other Jain accounts such as Hemachandra’s Parishishtaparva, Chanakya was born in the Canaka village of the Golla region, to a Jain Brahmin named Canin and his wife Canesvari. Other sources mention his father’s name as Chanak and state that Chanakaya’s name derives from his father’s name.
Rabu, 30 Juli 2014
Quotes of Business
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. -John Gottman
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. -Chinese Proverb
Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. -Donald Porter
Every great business is built on friendship. -J.C. Penney
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. -Henry Ford
The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do. -Kevin Stirtz
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit. -Aristotle
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. -Owen Fellt
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. -Stanley Bing
Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. -Benjamin Franklin
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. -Aristotle
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. -Niccolo Machiavelli
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. -Andrew Carnegie
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. -Laurence J. Peter
The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. -Orison Swett Marden
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. -Richard Branson
A man should never neglect his family for business. -Walt Disney
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. -Henry Ford
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. -Richard Branson
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. -Thomas Watson, Sr.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. -Ray Kroc
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with yourcompany’s name on it. -Gary Hamel
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. -Senator Everett Dirksen
Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. -Vince Lombardi
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. -Chinese Proverb
Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. -Donald Porter
Every great business is built on friendship. -J.C. Penney
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. -Henry Ford
The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do. -Kevin Stirtz
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit. -Aristotle
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. -Owen Fellt
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. -Stanley Bing
Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. -Benjamin Franklin
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. -Aristotle
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. -Niccolo Machiavelli
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. -Andrew Carnegie
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. -Laurence J. Peter
The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. -Orison Swett Marden
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. -Richard Branson
A man should never neglect his family for business. -Walt Disney
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. -Henry Ford
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. -Richard Branson
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. -Thomas Watson, Sr.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. -Ray Kroc
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with yourcompany’s name on it. -Gary Hamel
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. -Senator Everett Dirksen
Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. -Vince Lombardi
Business
A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned. A business owned by multiple individuals may be referred to as a company, although that term also has a more precise meaning.
The etymology of "business" relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work. The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage to mean a particular organization; the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, "the music business" and compound forms such as agribusiness; and the broadest meaning, which encompasses all activity by the community of suppliers of goods and services. However, the exact definition of business, like much else in the philosophy of business, is a matter of debate and complexity of meanings.
The efficient and effective operation of a business, and study of this subject, is called management. The major branches of management are financial management, marketing management, human resource management, strategic management, production management, operations management, service management and information technology management.
Owners engage in business administration either directly or indirectly through the employment of managers. Owner managers, or hired managers administer to three component resources that constitute the business’ value or worth: financial resources, capital or tangible resources, and human resources. These resources are administered to in at least five functional areas: legal contracting, manufacturing or service production, marketing, accounting, financing, and human resourcing.
The etymology of "business" relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work. The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage to mean a particular organization; the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, "the music business" and compound forms such as agribusiness; and the broadest meaning, which encompasses all activity by the community of suppliers of goods and services. However, the exact definition of business, like much else in the philosophy of business, is a matter of debate and complexity of meanings.
The efficient and effective operation of a business, and study of this subject, is called management. The major branches of management are financial management, marketing management, human resource management, strategic management, production management, operations management, service management and information technology management.
Owners engage in business administration either directly or indirectly through the employment of managers. Owner managers, or hired managers administer to three component resources that constitute the business’ value or worth: financial resources, capital or tangible resources, and human resources. These resources are administered to in at least five functional areas: legal contracting, manufacturing or service production, marketing, accounting, financing, and human resourcing.
Budha Quotes
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
A jug fills drop by drop.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
A jug fills drop by drop.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Budha
Siddhartha was born in northern central India, in the year of 567 B.C. He was born into the Kshatriya caste. His was birth preceded by a series of visions seen by his mother and prophecies made to his father. The prophecies made to his father stated that he wouldn't be a maharajah but a great religious leader.
When he was born his father shielded him from the awareness of the worlds realities. His was trained in the Hindu faith. Something unusual that happened before his birth was when a sacred white elephant, which touched his mother's side with a lotus, impregnated her.
Siddhartha grew up in luxury, securely protected from anything unpleasant. He later married beautiful princess Yasodarah, daughter of a neighboring maharajah. They had a son and named him prince Rahulah. His tutor was Channah, his fathers most trusted servant. He was advised to tutor and guard Siddhartha and to teach him to exercise constant vigilance so that Siddhartha may never experience the realities of life (the predictions).
Siddhartha began taking trips to a near by city with a servant, and for the first time saw the reality of life. Three things that Siddhartha saw that deeply disturbed him was an old lady bent over with age, a man whose body was ravaged with leprosy and a funeral cart carrying a dead body. Siddhartha could not get the "meaning of life" question "why do people suffer"? Out of his head. He spent many hours a day trying to find the answer in the Vedas but failed miserably. To find the answers to his questions, he first tried to follow the path of asceticism, by denying him physical pleasures and by eating a single grain of rice a day. This failed when he collapsed from anemic exhaustion. He then tried to study.
He spent many hours a day reading the Vedas, looking for clues on life's mysteries. During this period Siddhartha's life was very boring and simple. He was not successful in finding answers because he was looking in the wrong places.
Siddhartha was almost about to give up when he decide to meditate under a tree for as long as it would take for him to become enlightened. He spent forty-nine days and forty-nine nights meditating, on the fiftieth day he awoke enlightened. He was now known as Buddha the enlightened one.This was the beginning of a new religion. He wanted to share his insight with everyone. The monks that abandoned him back in his ascetic period rejoined him. Buddha died when he was more than eighty years old, of food poisoning.
When he was born his father shielded him from the awareness of the worlds realities. His was trained in the Hindu faith. Something unusual that happened before his birth was when a sacred white elephant, which touched his mother's side with a lotus, impregnated her.
Siddhartha grew up in luxury, securely protected from anything unpleasant. He later married beautiful princess Yasodarah, daughter of a neighboring maharajah. They had a son and named him prince Rahulah. His tutor was Channah, his fathers most trusted servant. He was advised to tutor and guard Siddhartha and to teach him to exercise constant vigilance so that Siddhartha may never experience the realities of life (the predictions).
Siddhartha began taking trips to a near by city with a servant, and for the first time saw the reality of life. Three things that Siddhartha saw that deeply disturbed him was an old lady bent over with age, a man whose body was ravaged with leprosy and a funeral cart carrying a dead body. Siddhartha could not get the "meaning of life" question "why do people suffer"? Out of his head. He spent many hours a day trying to find the answer in the Vedas but failed miserably. To find the answers to his questions, he first tried to follow the path of asceticism, by denying him physical pleasures and by eating a single grain of rice a day. This failed when he collapsed from anemic exhaustion. He then tried to study.
He spent many hours a day reading the Vedas, looking for clues on life's mysteries. During this period Siddhartha's life was very boring and simple. He was not successful in finding answers because he was looking in the wrong places.
Siddhartha was almost about to give up when he decide to meditate under a tree for as long as it would take for him to become enlightened. He spent forty-nine days and forty-nine nights meditating, on the fiftieth day he awoke enlightened. He was now known as Buddha the enlightened one.This was the beginning of a new religion. He wanted to share his insight with everyone. The monks that abandoned him back in his ascetic period rejoined him. Buddha died when he was more than eighty years old, of food poisoning.
Selasa, 29 Juli 2014
Best Quotes of Books
A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Marcus Tullius Cicero
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. -Jane Austen
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. -Mark Twain
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -Groucho Marx
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. -Lemony Snicket
Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. -Oscar Wilde
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. -John Green
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -Joseph Brodsky
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. -Roald Dahl
Think before you speak. Read before you think. -Fran Lebowitz
Never judge a book by its movie. -J.W. Eagan
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -Marcus Tullius
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. -Humphrey Carpenter
Books are the mirrors of the soul. -Virginia Woolf
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. -Cassandra Clare
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. -J.K. Rowling
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. -Jules Verne
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. -Franz Kafka
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. -Hermann Hesse
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. -Italo Calvino
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? -David Baldacci
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. -Anatole France
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. -Anon
A house without books is like a room without windows. -Horace Mann
Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. -Jesse Lee Bennett
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. -Vera Nazarian
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. -Harold Bloom
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! -unknown
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. -Jane Austen
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. -Mark Twain
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -Groucho Marx
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. -Lemony Snicket
Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. -Oscar Wilde
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. -John Green
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -Joseph Brodsky
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. -Roald Dahl
Think before you speak. Read before you think. -Fran Lebowitz
Never judge a book by its movie. -J.W. Eagan
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -Marcus Tullius
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. -Humphrey Carpenter
Books are the mirrors of the soul. -Virginia Woolf
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. -Cassandra Clare
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. -J.K. Rowling
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. -Jules Verne
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. -Franz Kafka
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. -Hermann Hesse
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. -Italo Calvino
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? -David Baldacci
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. -Anatole France
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. -Anon
A house without books is like a room without windows. -Horace Mann
Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. -Jesse Lee Bennett
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. -Vera Nazarian
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. -Harold Bloom
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! -unknown
Books
A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).Books may also refer to works of literature, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers.
The body of all written works including books is literature. In novels and sometimes other types of books (for example, biographies), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on). A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile or, more informally, a bookworm — an avid reader of books.
A shop where books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 unique titles had been published.
Book, Published work of literature or scholarship; the term has been defined by UNESCO for statistical purposes as a “non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers,” but no strict definition satisfactorily covers the variety of publications so identified.
The papyrus roll of ancient Egypt is more nearly the direct ancestor of the modern book than is the clay tablet of the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites; examples of both date from about 3000 bc.
Best Quotes of Bill Gates
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Life's not fair, get over it!
In china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Patience is a key element of success.
No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Life's not fair, get over it!
In china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Patience is a key element of success.
No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
Bill Gates
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates'
foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its industry-leading investment in research and development each year. In 1999, Gates wrote "Business @ the Speed of Thought", a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the "New York Times", "USA Today", "The Wall Street Journal" and on Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, "The Road Ahead", published in 1995, was at the top of the "New York Times" bestseller list for seven weeks.
Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.n addition to his love of computers and software, Gates founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world's largest resources of visual information - a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which invests in companies engaged in diverse business activities.
Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. They have three children. Gates is an avid reader, and enjoys playing golf, tennis and bridge.
Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates'
foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its industry-leading investment in research and development each year. In 1999, Gates wrote "Business @ the Speed of Thought", a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the "New York Times", "USA Today", "The Wall Street Journal" and on Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, "The Road Ahead", published in 1995, was at the top of the "New York Times" bestseller list for seven weeks.
Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.n addition to his love of computers and software, Gates founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world's largest resources of visual information - a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which invests in companies engaged in diverse business activities.
Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. They have three children. Gates is an avid reader, and enjoys playing golf, tennis and bridge.
Bill Cosby best Quotes
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that
Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre
behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.
Gray hair is Gods graffiti.
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers. Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
When you become senile, you won't know it.
All Children Have Brain Damage!
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children?
Those who've never had any.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that
Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre
behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.
Gray hair is Gods graffiti.
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers. Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
When you become senile, you won't know it.
All Children Have Brain Damage!
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children?
Those who've never had any.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby was one of America's best-loved TV stars, but his son's death in a drive-by shooting and court battles over alleged sexual assaults have left the family man's image in tatters.
William H. Cosby Jr. first took to the stage as a stand-up comedian while at college. By his early twenties, he had appeared in a number of television variety programmes including ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ and ‘The Johnny Carson Show’.
However, his big break came in 1965 when he appeared as Alexander Scott in ‘I Spy’, winning
In 1969, he starred in his own series, ‘The Bill Cosby Show’. He was also one of the major characters on the children's television show ‘The Electric Company’ for its first two seasons, and created the humorous educational cartoon series
‘Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids’, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby also acted in numerous films, although none has received the acclaim of his television work. In 1984, ‘Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids’ stopped production, and ‘The Cosby Show’ commenced. This portrayal of a middle-class African-American family – the Huxtables - was originally rejected by ABC, accepted by a then-floundering NBC, and became an almost instant success. From 1985 to
1987 the show broke viewing records, with Cosby becoming a real driving force in US television during the 1980s. ‘The Cosby Show’ finally stopped production in 1992, conceding its dominant position to the cartoon series, ‘The Simpsons’. Cosby was also dissatisfied with the way ethnic minorities were portrayed on television. He produced the TV series ‘A Different World’ in 1987, which was set in a historically black college and concentrated on young people and education.
The late 1990s brought trouble for Cosby, first in early 1997 with the death of his only son, Ennis, who was shot to death in a random act of violence. Also that year, he was dragged into a court case that involved a young woman named Autumn Jackson who claimed that he was her biological father. Cosby admitted to an affair with Jackson's mother but denied fathering Jackson. She was convicted of extortion and sentenced to 26 months in prison.
Cosby has received a number of awards during his career and in October 2009, the comedian was presented with the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humour.
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Benjamin Franklin Biography
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on 17 January 1706. He attended school only briefly, and then helped his father, who was a candle and soap maker. He was apprenticed to his brother, a printer, and began writing anonymously for his brother's newspaper. Franklin and his brother quarrelled, and in 1723 Franklin ran away to Philadelphia. After 18 months in London, Franklin settled in Philadelphia, establishing himself as a printer. He bought the 'Pennsylvania Gazette', which he edited and which became one of the American colonies' major newspapers. He also wrote and published 'Poor Richard's Almanack', an astronomy journal.
By 1748, Franklin had made enough money to retire from business and concentrate on science and inventing. His inventions included the Franklin stove and the lightning rod. He demonstrated that lightning and electricity are identical with his famous kite experiment. Franklin also became more active in politics. He was clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly (1736-1751), a member of the Assembly (1750-1764), and deputy postmaster for the Colonies (1753-1774), reorganising the postal service to make it efficient and profitable.
Franklin was also involved in many public projects, including founding the American Philosophical Society, a subscription library and, in 1751, an academy which later became the University of Pennsylvania. From 1757 to 1774, Franklin lived mainly in London where he was the colonial representative for Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. His attempts to reconcile the British government with the colonies proved fruitless. On his return to America, the war of independence had already broken out and he threw himself into the struggle. In 1776, he helped to draft, and was then a signatory to, the Declaration of Independence. His illegitimate son William, royal governor of New Jersey between 1762 and 1776, remained loyal to Britain, causing a rift that lasted for the rest of Franklin's life. Later that year, Franklin and two others were appointed to represent America in France. Franklin negotiated the Franco-American Alliance which provided for military cooperation between the two countries against Britain and ensured significant French subsidies to America.
In 1783, as American ambassador to France, Franklin signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American War of Independence. He was extremely popular and well known in France, but in 1785 returned to America. He continued to be deeply involved in politics, helping to draft the Constitution.
Franklin died in Philadelphia on 17 April 1790
By 1748, Franklin had made enough money to retire from business and concentrate on science and inventing. His inventions included the Franklin stove and the lightning rod. He demonstrated that lightning and electricity are identical with his famous kite experiment. Franklin also became more active in politics. He was clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly (1736-1751), a member of the Assembly (1750-1764), and deputy postmaster for the Colonies (1753-1774), reorganising the postal service to make it efficient and profitable.
Franklin was also involved in many public projects, including founding the American Philosophical Society, a subscription library and, in 1751, an academy which later became the University of Pennsylvania. From 1757 to 1774, Franklin lived mainly in London where he was the colonial representative for Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. His attempts to reconcile the British government with the colonies proved fruitless. On his return to America, the war of independence had already broken out and he threw himself into the struggle. In 1776, he helped to draft, and was then a signatory to, the Declaration of Independence. His illegitimate son William, royal governor of New Jersey between 1762 and 1776, remained loyal to Britain, causing a rift that lasted for the rest of Franklin's life. Later that year, Franklin and two others were appointed to represent America in France. Franklin negotiated the Franco-American Alliance which provided for military cooperation between the two countries against Britain and ensured significant French subsidies to America.
In 1783, as American ambassador to France, Franklin signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American War of Independence. He was extremely popular and well known in France, but in 1785 returned to America. He continued to be deeply involved in politics, helping to draft the Constitution.
Franklin died in Philadelphia on 17 April 1790
Quotes for Artificial Intelligence
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. -Edsger W. Dijkstra
To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity. -Brian Christian
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. -Terry Pratchett
I think they are a better race than humans ever were. -Angelo Tsanatelis
The Artificial Intelligence does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. -Eliezer Yudkowsky
Our ultimate objective is to make programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do. We shall…say that a program has common sense if it automatically deduces for itself a sufficient wide class of immediate consequence of anything it is told and what it already knows. -John McCarthy
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -Anon.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. -Claude Shannon
Artificial intelligence is that field of computer usage which attempts to construct computational mechanisms for activities that are considered to require intelligence when performed by humans. -Derek Partridge
Artificial Intelligence is about making machines more fathomable and more under the control of human beings, not less. Conventional technology has indeed been making our environment more complex and more incomprehensible, and if it continues as it is doing now the only conceivable outcome is disaster. -Donald Michie
Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do.-Herbert Simon
Artificial intelligence is the mimicking of human thought and cognitive processes to solve complex problems. -Richard Stottler
AI has never been a monolithic science; by the mid-1970s, the diverging interests of its pioneers were giving birth to recognizable specialties. -Daniel Crevier
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. -Bill Bulko
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.-Alan Kay
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. -Ray Kurzweil
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory. -Michio Kaku
To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity. -Brian Christian
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. -Terry Pratchett
I think they are a better race than humans ever were. -Angelo Tsanatelis
The Artificial Intelligence does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. -Eliezer Yudkowsky
Our ultimate objective is to make programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do. We shall…say that a program has common sense if it automatically deduces for itself a sufficient wide class of immediate consequence of anything it is told and what it already knows. -John McCarthy
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -Anon.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. -Claude Shannon
Artificial intelligence is that field of computer usage which attempts to construct computational mechanisms for activities that are considered to require intelligence when performed by humans. -Derek Partridge
Artificial Intelligence is about making machines more fathomable and more under the control of human beings, not less. Conventional technology has indeed been making our environment more complex and more incomprehensible, and if it continues as it is doing now the only conceivable outcome is disaster. -Donald Michie
Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do.-Herbert Simon
Artificial intelligence is the mimicking of human thought and cognitive processes to solve complex problems. -Richard Stottler
AI has never been a monolithic science; by the mid-1970s, the diverging interests of its pioneers were giving birth to recognizable specialties. -Daniel Crevier
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. -Bill Bulko
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.-Alan Kay
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. -Ray Kurzweil
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory. -Michio Kaku
Benjamin Franklin Best Quotes
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. -Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. -Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. -Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned. -Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. -Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -Benjamin Franklin
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. -Benjamin Franklin
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. -Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. -Benjamin Franklin
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. -Benjamin Franklin
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -Benjamin Franklin
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. -Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. -Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. -Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. -Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. -Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. -Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned. -Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. -Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -Benjamin Franklin
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. -Benjamin Franklin
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. -Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. -Benjamin Franklin
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. -Benjamin Franklin
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -Benjamin Franklin
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. -Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. -Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. -Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. -Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin
Bhagwad Gita Biography
The Bhagavad Gita is known as the Song Celestial. It is the most important sacred text in the Hindu tradition. The Bhagavad Gita is some 700verses and is a part of the great epic Mahabharata.
The backdrop to the Bhagavad Gita is the battle of Kurukshetra between the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Arjuna finds himself reluctantly fighting for the Pandavas against his cousins the Kauravas. Before the start of the battle Arjuna is a given a choice between having the help of either his beloved friend Krishna or the entire army of Krishna. Without hesitation Arjuna chose to have Sri Krishna as an adviser, rather than his army.
Most of the Bhagavad Gita comprises the discourse that Sri Krishna gave to his disciple Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurushetra. The battle becomes a synopsis for life and provides Sri Krishna the opportunity to explain to Arjuna the philosophy of Yoga and Vedanta, in a practical and meaningful way.
The Gita begins with Sri Krishna explaining the essence of man is not the body but the immortal soul. On the eve of battle Arjuna is filled with deep misgivings; he feels to kill his relatives and friends would be a great sin. But Sri Krishna replies that Arjuna should not seem himself as the doer. It is only God who gives and takes life away.
Furthermore the death of the body does not harm the soul. As the immortal quote of the Gita runs. “The soul migrates from body to body. Weapons cannot cleave it, nor fire consume it, nor water drench it, nor wind dry it. This is the soul and this is what is meant by the existence of the soul.”
By revealing his universal form, Arjuna views Sri Krishna as not just a friend, but as an Avatar or incarnation of God.
It is quite apt to note the English writer Christopher Isherwood would later comment on the Gita as being “like a university lecture delivered by God.”Their relationship changes from good friends to Master and disciple. It is Sri Krishna’s revelations that give the Gita its Divine power. Sanjaya the scribe of the Gita remembered the words of Sri Krishna and this is why the Gita is usually looked upon as sruti, or revealed knowledge. Even though technically the Gita is Smrti because it was later remembered and written down by Sanjaya.
Best Quotes for Bhagavad Gita
Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you
give, even your sufferings. -Bhagavad Gita
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life
with perfection. -Bhagavad Gita
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right
place, and when we expect nothing in return. -Bhagavad Gita
No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to
come. -Bhagavad Gita
I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. -Bhagavad Gita
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve His purpose. -Bhagavad Gita
Balance of mind is called Yoga. -Bhagavad Gita
It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be conquered, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation; but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal. -Bhagavad Gita
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors, which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.-Bhagavad Gita
For certain is death for the born... And certain is birth for the dead... Therefore, over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. -Bhagavad Gita
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. -Bhagavad Gita
The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice. -Bhagavad Gita
There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we
will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old
age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these
changes. -Bhagavad Gita
Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. -Bhagavad Gita
Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united
with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. -Bhagavad Gita
Be free from fear. Be fearless and have faith in the divine. -Bhagavad Gita
Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. -Bhagavad Gita
As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. -Bhagavad Gita
No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all. -Bhagavad Gita
The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's
own mind. -Bhagavad Gita
The last verse of Bhagavad-Gita, which is known as ‘One Verse Gita’ -Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God
which is manifested by actions." -Dr. Albert Schweizer
"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day." - Mahatma Gandhi
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita... in comparison with which... our modern world and its literature seems puny
and trivial." -Henry David Thoreau
"The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century." -J. R. Oppenheimer
"The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization."- Sri Aurobindo
"The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it."-Rudolph Steiner
This last verse of Bhagavad-Gita from Chapter 18 (Conclusion--The Perfection of Renunciation) explains: Wherever there is Krishna, the master of all mystics (Yoga and wisdom), and wherever there is Arjuna (True Devotee), the supreme archer (performer of his/her duties), there will always certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality (policy).
The knowledge sacrifice is superior to any material sacrifice.
No one is even equal to You in the three worlds how can there be one greater than You O Being of Incomparable Glory.
But, you are not able to see Me with your physical eye therefore, I give you the divine
eye to see My majestic power and glory.
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