Einstein - Simple & Confused

Can you imagine what Einstein would have done if he had access to Google?
I believe he wouldn’t have used his brain as much as he did without Google!!
Below is the collection of quotes by Einstein, which I collected, form various works based on him. Hope it solves the riddles of life and inspires you. Why I am putting them here is that it makes some points real simple while some confusing and that’s how Einstein was "Simple & Confused".

1 Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
2 The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
3 Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
4 In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
5 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
6 know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
7 The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
8 It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
9 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
10 Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
11 God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
12 Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
13 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
14 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
15 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

From Ripon Handique

Mere bhai,i still can see
And feel you near me;
Through the mist you're there
As your memories are here.
With me are those ivy days
Where Mr. Mondal still says,
'Break up'.That evening,
When after dinner 2 rowdies sing.

I still savour,Jaani:
Halim,kabaabs and biryani.
And who can forget
The ball hitting the net?
The physics classes on motion,
The chemistry classes of our demotion,
The english classes that went over the head,
The maths classes when we were dead.

Not have i seen
Zephyr's realm of B-13.
Still remember those evening scenes
In those saturday,sunday canteens.
Spunky Tones against the Volkafilos:
Was that rivalry close?
Do you remember the Dorms' day?
'The best',they still say.

A Preceptor's Forebearance

Today I witnessed the most humiliating event in my life. Ya humilating, not a joyful one and at the stand was not me but my preceptor, my evs lecturer. This guy has been teaching for say about three months and his classes were meant for "masti". Masti in the sense he does take things light and we do take him light. Well as usual today's class was out of control and the best thing was the strength was not full even though it was not Friday i.e we didn’t have a major situation.
All these days this guy has been tolerating us and we were tolerating him, so what was special for things to go wrong today?
It was an incident were one throws a paper ball over him and coincidently it lands in his shirt's pocket (a good throw), witnessing this I was stuck dumb for some moment. In school days even I was juvenile and used to think I was at par in terms of mischief but today I realized how small I was. Along with this today I learnt what tolerance and forgiveness really mean.
Now you might think he would have got hold of the guy and see to that he is "****** up" but to everybody's surprise he gently asks to the class "Who did this by mistake" and the culprit rises and says "Sir it's me wanted to throw it out”. Then he gently asked him to take his seat back and he carried on. I believe for the audience this was not enough and things turned more chaotic after this and then he says, "I am sure you wouldn't have seen any lecturer like me & I am sure I haven't seen any pupil like you"
Well when all this was going on I could feel what tolerance and forgiveness is all about. People say its your heart to forgive and today I think what I have seen makes me believe its not the heart its the way you have been brought up. I have been so arrogant I never bothered to know his name and all I knew was he was my evs lecturer. Today after witnessing the great amount of realization I feel sorry for my staff at my higher school with whom I misbehaved. I wish I could get a chance to apologize to one and all for being so rude to them. And after all this the "EVS Lecturer" name is Mr. Muthulingam (which I found out today only) and I believe this was his last class for us and I am blessed to meet such a person in life and learn so much in no time and I really mean no time. Now things that I concluded after all this are:

1. In college the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate one another
2. The highest result of learning is forbearance
3. For a lecturer to tolerate is to teach nothing

Well after reading this I am sure there is goanna be a violent roar but guys this article is not to humiliate us but to honor one such person who never humiliated us. After few years I am sure we are going to regret, the way I am at this moment. So laugh and be merry till you don’t hurt the one standing in front of us "The Preceptor".

What should I be - Altruist or Misanthrope?

Looking at the people who live around me, I ask myself in what aspect should I take them? Staying in residential school for 12 years of life, where you have been thought the lesson, service to mankind is service to God and where you also learn that its no good world its “dog eat dog” world. So how am I to decide how to treat people around me?

I know the answer is simple that is treat them as they treat you but the point is human beings are complex and what they do at once they may not do it again being the circumstances different. So how am I to test them, should I observe them or should I just follow what my heart (black and white) tells me?

After passing out from my school and when I took up a professional course, I realized its better to parry off the lessons thought at school. I am saying this because when I started living a solitude life I started meeting people of various kinds “extroverts, introverts and abiders”. I learned that the lesson thought at school were good to understand but not to be followed. Though I have mixed feelings to the lessons thoughts but I don’t think it’s possible to practice it in life and expect the same from other side. The people around you are just here to mean business, some take the friendly path whereas some the other way.
Exceptions are always part of human anthropology and I would say people who are that are my parents and my best friends (like in my case). I think that friends are means as well as no means to learn.

As Sidney Sheldon says “…. to be great in life you need to have enemies….” I totally agree with him because it’s your enemies who make you aware of your faults. But then should I make everybody s my enemy. Hmmmm….. This puts me in great confusion, a writer of that caliber cannot be wrong even if he is maybe not at this. In country like India where the every day you meet someone new and every walk of life is a tough challenge (more competitors), how am I taking people into considerations? Should I follow the Gandhian philosophy? Or should I follow the Big Brother’s policy?

To all my ambivalence, I fell one has to understand the other.

“…The face is a mask over a mirror.
What are we looking for? What seeking?
Each of us twists like a haunted river,
Nor do we linger over another's grieving.
Tell me of yourself, that I might become clearer
Your words are my eyes, your passion my breathing.
The face is a mask over a mirror.
What can I give you? What gleanings
Of yourself can my poor words deliver?”

OSS Seminar

Well (ya again "Well") today I had to give a seminar to my immediate juniors on the topic "Linux”. As usual I plan something and I did something. Just after my lunch (which is usually a boring session in fact sleepy) I structured my seminar in this manner:

1. Introduction to OSS
2. Evolution of Linux (Richard Stallman & Linus Torvalds story)
3. Structure of OS
4. Comparison with Windows
5. GUI aspects of Linux
6. Linux as a tool in engineering projects

When I entered their class, as usual it was chaotic and then when I started I lost the structure, which I framed (I messed up) but still then rushed through everything. As usual you have people who listen and people who makes you listen (irritate). One thing I learned today was the audience I usually used to address where my classmates but here it was different and definitely along came different responses (reactive ness varied).
Well another thing about this class, which I addressed, was different, I mean really vibrant looks for example one guy keeps looking at me as if the next moment he is goanna tell me "u r recruited or fired". He had that look on his face, as if analyzing me and I seriously like that because when you are up there talking someone is analyzing you and I try to prove it to him "you are dumb”. I know that’s weird correlation that’s why I love it. Maybe its because he gave a look that was similar to the look that usually STEVE JOBS gave to his peers and I was their to say "Hell" to him.
Well I pray that whatever I spoke was worth because I didn’t go there to do any proving but to guide as a fellow student. At last it was a whole new learning experience and I believe next time I make it down I should be ready to face various responses. The good thing that happened at last was one guy from this class walks up to me and says "It was aspiring" and that makes me feel much better and I think I like this crowd.

(Notice: Variation in likeness about the audience)

The links I gave out were:

www.google.com/linux
www.freshmeat.net
www.sourceforge.net
www.slax.org
Search for matlab central file exchange in google
www.kernel.org
www.fedora.org
www.opensuse.org

Codes-Expression of your grey matter

Well codes that we write daily, I believe is what we have within us. Imagine for a program to calculate an addition of two numbers, everybody will write the codes in the manner that is unique from each other. This uniqueness is what defines your grey matters. How efficient and distinct is your code from others? Its been long time ever I have seen two snippets of codes for same problem by two different persons are same, even if they are it will differ by one semicolon at least.
Order of the day, to write better and efficient codes I believe one has to tune up the curves of your 800gms substance in your head.

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"

Well just started........

A new beginning ...at the midnight hour...well I didn’t get freedom but all that’s wrong with me is I am not able to catch some sleep and I am here. I just do not know why I have started this all over again and even don’t know why I selected my title to be Vibrant Thoughts. Neither any enthusiasm nor any thoughtful idea is set in my mind but I believe next day when I wake up...hopefully I shall have them.

Life is very different out with me, I don’t know why and I always try to reason out...at these hours (can u believe that). Well I have my immigrant cousin online and still I don’t believe my words (what has that got to do? well even I don’t know).
So all I have to say is that "Well I don’t know?" and hopefully "I will know"

"Discretion is better part of valor".