"Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."" - Atul Arora
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"She is an energy expert exactly the same way the king of Saudi Arabia is an energy expert — by accident of residence. Palin happens to be governor of the Saudi Arabia of America — Alaska — and the only energy expertise she has is the same as the king of Saudi Arabia’s. It’s about how the windfall profits from the oil in their respective kingdoms should be divided between the oil companies and the people." - Atul Arora
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"“We’re living in a culture that is telling girls you can’t do math — that’s telling everybody that only Asians and nerds do math,” said the study’s lead author, Janet E. Mertz, an oncology professor at the University of Wisconsin, whose son is a winner of what is viewed as the world’s most-demanding math competitions. “Kids in high school, where social interactions are really important, think, ‘If I’m not an Asian or a nerd, I’d better not be on the math team.’ Kids are self selecting. For social reasons they’re not even trying.”" - Atul Arora
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"If the bottom 10 percent of bankers were fired every year and the bottom 10 percent of banks had their branches and deposits redistributed, wouldn't they be more afraid of THAT than of making bad loans? Their motivation would still be to make GOOD loans, but the penalty for making NO loans would be there, too." - Atul Arora
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"U Rank is a search engine that allows people to organize, edit and annotate search results, as well as share information with others" - Atul Arora
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"Google is light-years ahead of, well, almost everyone. If strategy was an evolutionary tree, most businesses would be slugs, and Google would be a mammal." - Atul Arora
"If the product is ready, cut the number of engineers." - That's right. Don't add any new features, don't fix any bugs, don't make any improvements. It's this type of visionless thinking that caused the outsourcing boom. How about: be hyperproductive with fewer people from the start and then you don't have to fire people. - todd
Quote: "Talking to person at Google requires a subscription to Google Apps Premier Edition for $50 a year. Microsoft and Yahoo similarly offer telephone support only to "premium" customers.
If you care about a Web mail account, then some homework may be in order." - Daniel J. Pritchett
