Photo Gallery
- Supercomputers
Standing close to the supercomputers TITAN (‘world’s fastest’ supercomputer in Nov. 2012), JUGENE (‘world’s 2nd fastest’ civil supercomputer in 2007, ‘Europe’s fastest’ supercomputer in 2009), KRAKEN (‘world’s 3rd fastest’ supercomputer in 2008), and JAGUAR (‘world’s fastest’ supercomputer in 2009 and 2010).
- Views out of my "Office-Window" (VMS AG)
- Teaching
- Views out of my "Office-Window" (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- Views out of my "Office-Window" (Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing)
- Sports/Outdoor Activities
- Cooking
- Nature/ Gardening
My Name
It is amazing how beautiful different scriptures are, enjoy reading. If you can contribute further phonetic encodings of my name, please contact me.
- Arabic:
(courtesy Fatima) - Dari/ Pashto:
- Bengali:
(courtesy Mithun) - Chinese (Mandarin):
(courtesy Aixiao) - Georgian:
(courtesy Mari) - Hebrew:
(courtesy Anton) - Hindi (Devanagari):
(courtesy Lipi) - Japanese:
(courtesy Kei) - Philippines (Baybayin/ Alibata):
(courtesy Ricky) - Punjabi (Gurmukhi):
(courtesy Amandeep) - Russian (Cyrillic):
(courtesy Alexej)
Interesting Quotations
- "Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes." (Tori Amos 1963, artist)
- "Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes." (Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, politician)
- "A hero/ine is no braver than an ordinary man, but s/he is brave five minutes longer." (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, philosopher)
- "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." (Prof. Abraham Maslow 1908-1970)
- "Kissi ka Dil nahi todna." ("What ever you do in this world, never break somebodies heart if you can avoid it.") (Hindi/ Urdu proverb)
- "You treat a disease, you win, you loose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome." ("Patch" Adams, M.D. 1945)
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"Never lose the child-like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us."
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
"Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity."
"If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'"
"You get people to help you by telling the truth; by being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term."
"It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you." (Prof. Randy Pausch 1960-2008, his talk on "Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams") -
"Western, Eastern/ Asian and the tribal tradition all agree on one thing: that humanity is good, that human nature is good."
"There are some generic qualities across the world of people we call leaders:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Integrity, it also means loyalty to truth which is essential for creating trust
3. Combination of toughness/ demanding and fairness
4. Warmth/ humanity (cold fish don't make good leaders)
5. Humility, the leak of arrogance (wisdom is damaged by arrogance)
A Zulu saying summarizes this qualities: 'I can not hear what you are saying because what you are is shouting at me.'"
(Prof. John Adair 1934) - "What whole-hearted people have in common is the COURAGE to be imperfect, the COMPASSION to be kind to themselves first and then to others, they had CONNECTION as a result of authenticity, they were willing to let go of who they should be in order to be who they were and last they believed that what made them VULNERABLE made them beautiful!" (Prof. Bréne Brown, her talk on "The power of vulnerability")
- "Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either." (Golda Meir 1898-1978, politician)
- "We have to ensure thath our differences are not a cause of conflict but an opportunity to draw on the strengths of our individual faiths for the greater good. Dialogue will only work if we are willing to let go of our misconceptions as we encounter people. When we hear that the information we had about another group, or our assumptions about them, are wrong, we can become defensive and refuse to listen with an open mind and an open heart. Dialogue can only work when we are aware of these obstacles and seek to overcome them." (Prof. Ingrid Mattson, "Kellogg Lectures" at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- "I don't like what you are doing but I respect who you are. You know why? Because maybe who you will be tomorrow, will be better then who I am today." (Prof. Tariq Ramadan)
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"For all that has been - Thanks. For all that shall be - Yes."
"The longest journey is the journey inwards."
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning." (Dag Hammarskjöld 1905-1961, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations) - "The greatest miracle is that the true, real miracles can or shall become so common to us." (Lessing 1729-1781, philosopher)
- "This is the answer. Unfortunately, no one's figured out the question yet." (Garfield 1978-?, lazy cat)
Recipe Database
Merge recipes, try out new creations and challenge your taste buds. For the theory part try out the book 'Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking'.
Links, Gurus and More
(In alphabetical order of the last name.)
- Tomasz Bereźniak
- Mithun Biswas
- Manuel Montenegro
- Lipi Thukral
