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Nice Speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Nice Speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis A very nice article... Speech given by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis. Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, hang out with friends, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices. "Don't be serio...

History behind the famous IT company - What's there in name ?

History behind the famous IT company - So,.....What's there in name ? Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'APAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache. Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock. CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco. Google - the name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders, Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an ange...