Sid Yadav

“I’m a tool builder. That’s how I think of myself. I want to build really good tools that I know in my gut and my heart will be valuable. And then whatever happens is… you can’t really predict exactly what will happen, but you can feel the direction that we’re going. And that’s about as close as you can get. Then you just stand back and get out of the way, and these things take on a life of their own.”

—	Steve Jobs in a very rare Rolling Stone interview from 1994

Boxee's response to NBC's president and CEO, Jeff Zucker

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Aziz Ansari: Fresh Air on NPR

“Great products, according to Mr. Jobs, are triumphs of “taste.” And taste, he explains, is a byproduct of study, observation and being steeped in the culture of the past and present, of “trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then bring those things into what you are doing.”

—	Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism - NYTimes.com

“I hate cynicism. It’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”

—	Conan O’Brien

“Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew.”

—	A poem by Christopher Logue, widely attributed to Apollinaire

My Favourite Movies of 2009

I usually go into a lot of detail, but it’s going to be a quickie this year.

3 idiots (Hindi)
Inglorious Basterds
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (Hindi)
The Hangover
500 Days of Summer
Paranormal Activity
Kaminey (Hindi)
District 9
Star Trek
Paa (Hindi)

Note 1: I haven’t seen Avatar yet (because I refuse to watch it in Hindi — the only language it’s playing in my city in). If I had seen it, judging by what I’ve heard of it, it would probably take up one of the top 3 spots.

Note 2: I watch a lot of Hindi/Bollywood cinema because I grew up on it. 99% of the movies produced in Bollywood are crap, but the movies on this list are totally worth checking out for anyone and films I would only hesitate to recommend due to the language barrier and perhaps cultural references; not at all based on the merit of the films which I think is on-par with world (Hollywood) cinema.

Planning to watch The Usual Suspects (again, after failing the last time.)

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