- Success! Or so you thought -

At 26, Albert Einstein wrote four articles that participated in the foundation of modern physics, without much scientific literature to which he could refer or many scientific colleagues with whom he could discuss the theories. Three of those were on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and relativity.

At 18, Michael Dell started PC's Limited in his university dorm room, from which he sold computers.

Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mihailovic Brin were both 23-year-old PhD. students when they founded a simple search engine which was to revolutionise the Internet world. Google registered an average of 250 million searches per day as of February 2003.

It took William Henry Gates III and an associate 8 weeks to develop an Altair emulator, and then the BASIC interpreter, en route to setting up the software company MicroSoft which was to change the face of technology at home and in the workplace forever. And all this while a 20-year-old third-year student at Harvard University. Which he didn't graduate from.

Tadeusz Rybczynski was a postgraduate student when he wrote a thesis on Factor Allocation in International Trade. It would later win him the Nobel Prize in Economics.

At 21, Jonathan Ng struggled to memorise the Fama-French three-factor regression method and was frustrated when asked to propose a model for the appreciation of the real exchange rates of transitional economies such as those of the Baltic countries, Poland and the Czech Republic.

- ZEN SARCASM -

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.

2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.

3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

4. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

5. Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.

6. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

7. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

8. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

9. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

11. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

13. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.

14. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

16. A closed mouth gathers no foot.

17. Duct tape is like 'The Force'. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

18. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

19. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.

20. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

21. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

22. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

- The Thing about Men and Women -

1) Ziploc Bags are Male, because they hold everything in, but you can seeright through them.

2) Copiers are Female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warmthem up again. It's an effective reproductive device if the right buttonsare pushed, but can wreak havoc if the wrong buttons are pushed.

3) A Tire is Male, because it goes bald and it's often over-inflated.

4) A Hot Air Balloon is Male, because, to get it to go anywhere, you haveto light a fire under it, and of course, there's the hot air part.

5) Sponges are Female, because they're soft, squeezable and retain water.

6) A Web Page is Female, because it's always getting hit on.

7) A Subway is Male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.

8) An Hourglass is Female, because over time, the weight shifts to thebottom.

9) A Hammer is Male, because it hasn't changed much over the last 5,000years, but it's handy to have around.

10) A Remote Control is Female - it gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying!

- Redemption -

The long wait is over.
I'm going to New Jersey next year. :)