Friday, October 22, 2010

CSE

Administering simple dosage of system programming in operating systems with ...
Linux Kernel Internals (M Beck)

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Eye Openers

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds ... [Buddha]
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? ... [Buddha]

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Happy Dussehra

Wishing you a very happy dussehra

CSE

Parallelizing the conceptual model of algorithms and computations with ...
Introduction to Parallel Computing (Ananth Grama)

Travelling Thoughts

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous ...
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world ...
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe ...
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing ...
I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed ...
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it ...

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Travelling Thoughts

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others ...
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path ...

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still ...
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage ...

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world ...
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives ...

Travelling Thoughts

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world ... [Buddha]
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust ... [Buddha]
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body ...
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen ...
The stormy life can be braved only by the heart's sunny meditations ...
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes ...

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Travelling Thoughts

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only ...
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth ...
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing ...

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ? ...

The more you care for others...The more you get hurt...

Intuitive Insights

Bites are inevitable when you live among dogs ...

Friday, October 1, 2010

Travelling Thoughts

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act ... [Buddha]
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves ... [Buddha]
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life ...
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike ...
Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less ...
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials ...

CSE TOC

Situation demands me to doubt my encounter with dexterity in the whirlwind of passing time ... [same envisages the probable existence of a machine more computable than Turing ... ]

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Travelling Thoughts

It is better to travel well than to arrive ... [Buddha]
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful ...
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind ... [Buddha] 
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets out of it but what he becomes by it ...
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens ...
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant ...
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools ...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

CSE

Ready to take on the conceptual basis behind visual graphics extravaganza with ...
Computer Graphics Principles & Practice (James D Foley)

Travelling Thoughts

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger ...
What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do ...
Even the familiar will yield something new when you open your mind to discovery ...
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? ... [Buddha]
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze .. [Buddha]
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose ...
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it ...
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves ...
A fool judges people by the presents they give him ...
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable ... 

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Travelling Thoughts

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change ... [Buddha]
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become ...
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea ... [Buddha] 
Every endeavor is covered by some fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work born of his nature, O son of Kuntī, even if such work is full of fault ... [Krishna]
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn ...
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly ...
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you ...
Dwell in thought upon the grandest, and the grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the highest, and the highest you shall be ...
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age ...
What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life ? ...