“..enlightenment is little more than a pit-stop between insoluble questions..

“Most successful startups end up doing something that is different from their original idea. Dogged determinedness will likely keep you from building the business that you could have built. Yes, you can’t just drop every idea that comes along at the first sign of conflict or controversy. It’s a very thin line.

“it’s okay to be unbalanced…but only for a while. Very successful people have to work in extremes.

“The man who earned between Rs 30,000 and Rs 2 lakh a month, thanks to his resemblance with Tendulkar has not earned a single paisa since India crashed out of the World Cup. “Sachin allowed me to lead a respectable life, but today I am jobless and homeless. I was planning to buy a small apartment in Mira Road for Rs 5.5 lakh, but I can’t afford it any more.

“..it could be the best thing to happen to world cricket. Now even Ireland has a chance of beating Australia..

“Social networks can connect people in three ways. They can strengthen existing relationships. They can connect friends-of-friends. And they can introduce complete strangers.

“..one million women are stalked in the U.S. every year. In two-thirds of the cases where a female victim asks for a police protective order, that order is violated.. One third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner. 76 percent of these had been stalked by the partner in the year prior to their murder. Murder ranks second (after accidents) as the leading cause of death among young women. Murder is the number one cause of death of pregnant women in the United States.

“The soundtrack uses one of the best albums ever recorded, “Rain Dogs” by Tom Waits.

“I’d be happy if posts counted for nothing and only comments did. It promotes and rewards discussion.

“Cool feature of NYT online I just discovered: If you double click a word, it’ll define it for you in a pop up window.