Kedar’s log 2008..

Death doesn’t just take someone.. it misses someone else!

–Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet In Heaven)

It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

–Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Terre des hommes, 1939

Unfortunately, the notion that successful career progression involves a complete move away from coding dies hard, and does immense harm

–Rod Johnson. J2EE Development Without EJB. (In a paragraph about “The Hands-off Architect”)

If you think experts are expensive, wait until you see what amateurs cost you!

Anonymous

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

–Arthur C. Clarke

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

–Susan Ertz (Quoted in ‘The Infinite Book’ by John D. Barrow)

From the “Words I wish I wrote” book by Robert Fulghum - thanks to Kevin Lawver for lending it to me.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit
–Helen Keller:

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
–Ken Kersey:

You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you ever risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous in risking one’s life. So you lose it, you go to your hero’s heaven and everything is milk and honey ’til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That’s not courage. Real courage is risking something you have to keep on living with, real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one’s clichés.
–Tom Robbins:

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

–Albert Einstein

If all you’ve got is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail.

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