photography – quote
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
~Dorothea Lange
Its common among software engineers and I’ve been no major exception as well – to be perpetually pissed off for not having got a well-deserved hike or a promotion, esp as much as someone else got. Once in a way, we go beyond mere bickering and nagging to really trying to demand what we deserve.
Happened to go through half a day’s training undertaken by Enable India a few months ago, this is a long procrastinated writeup. It was a training on training blind people on computer literacy. Its important to understand the people one is working with.
Quote from a newsgroup where a lot of people were extensively debating in defence of the content of a forwarded email… There was one post against the email which said this: NOT MY INTENT TO HURT ANYONE Whenever I get this kind of junk email… This man is either blatantly lying, or simply being naive….
So many times we dedicate significant amount of energy of our life running behind pleasure. I even remember an ex-colleague who felt that the ultimate existence would be to get plugged into a machine that would give him all the pleasure he needed. I said boy, they’ve already made a movie on that called the…
Prashanth’s photoblog Payaniga is usually pretty good and I’ve often used the monthly calendar wallpapers that he shares. But this particular picture simply left me breathless… 8) UG‘s quote comes to mind… If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought,…
Are multinational companies helping or harming India’s development? I don’t know the answer and haven’t come to any conclusion of my own, I’m just putting some pieces here, any more are welcome… 🙂 … or even any differences in opinion!
sanjay,
read this beautiful interview with the inventor of digital camera. lots of insights from the man who invented it…
http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/07kodak.htm
“Innovation best comes from people who know nothing about the topic” – what a great line RK! Or if its too late and one already knows a great deal then that quote could have an extension like “who know nothing about the topic or who can discard all that they know!” 🙂 Thanks for the link, makes good reading.
a great line indeed, which is applicable to anything! 🙂