Sid's World!

519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an explanation.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:48:08 +0530

517. You can't learn anything with your hands in your pockets.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:47:01 +0530

(via tim burke)

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times,..."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:45:44 +0530

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

- Michael Jordan

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942 (via...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:13:43 +0530

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942 (via Boing Boing)

"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:15:06 +0530

“Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:14:33 +0530

“Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:13:08 +0530

“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —since there is no other metaphor—also..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:10:19 +0530

“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:07:24 +0530

“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:06:15 +0530

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:05:18 +0530

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:04:02 +0530

“The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.”

- Christopher Hitchens

"[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:02:31 +0530

“[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”

- Christopher Hitchens

Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:33:50 +0530

Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:29:24 +0530

“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”

- Yiddish proverb

"Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:58:51 +0530

“Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.”

- Aristotle

"Money cannot purchase what the heart desires."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:46:16 +0530

“Money cannot purchase what the heart desires.”

- Chinese Proverb

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:16:28 +0530

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

- Arthur Miller

"Most people consider a glass as half empty or half full. I look at it as too big."

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:30:27 +0530

“Most people consider a glass as half empty or half full. I look at it as too big.”

- George Carlin

General Welsh Speech to USAFA

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:12:11 +0530

General Welsh Speech to USAFA