photography – quote
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
~Dorothea Lange
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….
…there is one course, for which the immensity of its value is indisputable. For this course, there is no entrance exam, and the only requirement is that one is a human being; whether one is a prodigal genius to intellectually challenged, multi-billionaire to desperately poor, sanyasi to terrorist… is completely immaterial…
If we consider a snake, over time, it gets a new skin, and its old skin dies. Its not easy for the snake to get rid of the old skin. It has to wriggle through rocks and narrow spaces and put in considerable effort to get rid of the old skin. Its quite uncomfortable –…
Problem:
Western Ghat forests are getting destroyed by tribals or villagers. They are in an economically bad state. What do they do? They chop down trees and sell the timber. That gets them money for a bit more time.
Solutions….
Its a fairly well known idea nowadays that time is becoming increasingly more valuable than money, and what we really need is more time for ourselves.
The Taj Mahal was built on the love of a man for his wife. The Pyramid is built on the belief of after life. The Great Wall of China has been built as a political divide, The Colosseum was built to pit fighter against fighter for cruel fights to the death. In our current era,…
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! 🙂