Quote of the Day – ‘Abbas’ on a Pak Forum

I would like to congratulate the Indian team and Misbah for defeating Pakistan comprehensively. – Source: “Abbas’ from Lahore on PakGuns.com Folks, much as we all may be tempted to slam Pakistan, we’ve to admit that they played a great Match today. Very Entertaining. Just that the better team (India) won today. As for Misbah, […]

Joker of the day – Abhishek Bachchan

When Abhishek Bachchan opens his mouth, you know where his foot’s gonna land, right? 😉 If there’s one horrible, beyond-redemption non-actor in Bollywood, it’s this bloke Abhishek Bachchan. The 35-year-old son of Amitabh Bachchan is a cartoon and completely irrelevant in Bollywood. Abhishek’s films like Drona, Delhi 6 and Raavan are unwatchable horror-shows. If he’s […]

Quote of the Day – Bill Keller

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter. – Bill Keller, Editor, New York Times Source: NYT It’s no secret that the  NYT is our favorite newspaper. Offline or online, we try not to miss it. Sadly, […]

Quote of the Day – Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal quoted by the character Brother Luc in the French movie Of Gods and Men. Source: New Yorker, February 28, 2011 p.81

Quote of the Day – A Crocodile Weeps Over its Victims

It’s been very difficult to monetize, sell, make money from newspapers. The Internet has come along, the Internet is perceived as free, and people who are working very hard to produce very high-quality journalism have not been able to get paid properly. – Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2011

Quotes of the Day – Somerset Maugham

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. ************* It is cruel to discover one’s mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. – Monsieur Foinet to Philip Carey in Somerset Maugham’s On Human Bondage, P.248

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