so true
1. Money cannot buy happiness but somehow, it’s more comfortable to cry in a Rolls Royce than it is on a bicycle.
2. Forgive your enemy but remember the bast**d’s name.
3. Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
4. Many people are alive only because it’s illegal to shoot them. 5. Alcohol does not solve any problem, but then neither does milk.
Hope it got your creative juices flowing...
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Why there will be no Steve Jobs in India?
via Pragmatic Euphony by Pragmatic on 10/10/11
No appetite for risk-taking, and our education system
This is part of an email conversation I had with a friend, a doctorate in higher mathematics from a top US university (a medal winner to boot) and now working at one of the top information technology companies there. His earlier education in India provides him with the right perspective to answer the question raised here. Here is an extract from his email.
I disagree with you. Success of Jobs and Gates was because of the capital they could raise and the talent they could hire….
The “environment” certainly made Steve Jobs. Indians value stability, gradual progress. Steve Jobs is produced by an environment that encourages massive risks with miserable failures and resounding success. Environment which encourages massive risk-taking is what creates giants in the High Tech sector.
Let us first take a look at risk-taking:
India has no culture of venture capitalists. It is not that we don’t have rich people — we have many many rich people. We dont have people who think that investing large amounts of money on a new business is by itself a legitimate vocation. I don’t know why this is the case.
