Beautiful lines

Darare Darare hain mathe pe maula

Murramaat Muqadar ki kar de mere maula

-- Prasoon Joshi

Fights within

It feeds great to fight the world out and achieve something. What if the world doesn't want to fight with me. Would I ever start looking inside !!

Wisdom from Bip Parmar

Bip is one person, who has had significant influence on my life... I wandered today to his site, and a few quotes he said in his coaching were echoed here... Making it my own now.

Your emotions are the decision makers...
Your destiny is shaped by the decisions you make..
Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.

Thanks Bip

Flatten your Jelly

De bono's book on Lateral thinking in first few chapters talks about the nature of mind. That mind is like jelly. The contours or how some drops of water would flow on jelly is a function of both. The prior contouring of the jelly, and also the way the water falls on it. Sometimes, it just flows on the same contours or channels, sometimes new channels are created but they stay to be a function of the old channels.
Sometimes in life, when we are stuck and don't seem to be making headway, let's become conscious of our own Jellies in mind. What has driven those contours and channels in past. Has the weather changed. Are they just relics now, serving no purpose.

-- Yours truly

Personality of a true software professional, or why can software engineers be proud of what they do.
- Given that software is nothing but a whole bunch of logic, and yet that if it has to be meaningful it ultimately has to pass the test of the user loving it, you the software engineer stand in the middle converting that in-nate to something precise to meet the needs. That is a skill. A skill to listen, to understand, and to put in the effort to show it back to the user that hey, was it this that you wanted. So live for the day to get that appreciation. Because if that joy is seen on the face of the user, be happy that you listened it right and had the grace and care to work on it to deliver it. Be proud of the process, because that is who you are.

For that matter, it is not just software but any engineering. That is why true engineers are always humble.

-- Yours truly

Laughters and Pleasures

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Success

This is what De Bono has to say about success. Such a simple practical way to define it, without any motivations about deeper reasons for achieving it. So this is what he has to say

Success is to set out to do something and to succeed in doing it.

--Edward De Bono

Strength

Often times, I have hated in self defence; If I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon

--Kahlil Gibran