sneaker.org » Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org Manu Kumar | California | U.S.A Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:45:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tax quotes for Tax time http://www.sneaker.org/2010/03/tax-quotes-for-tax-time/ http://www.sneaker.org/2010/03/tax-quotes-for-tax-time/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:53:15 +0000 admin http://www.sneaker.org/?p=768 It’s that time of the year again. I dislike this time of the year for just one reason — the amount of hassle and time involved in pulling together papers for taxes. It’s worse when you have multiple entities to deal with. I once asked an accountant why the US tax system is so screwed up. His response was beautiful: “Job security.” The odds that the tax system here will ever be simplified is so remote that hell will freeze over first.

I received the following quotes in an email from my personal tax accountant, Buzz Rose from B. Rose CPA. I enjoyed reading them, and so figured they would be worth sharing here (with Buzz’s permission of course):

“Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what’s called a red flag. That’s something the IRS always looks for. For example, let’s say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That’s a red flag.”
Jay Leno

“The only difference between a taxman and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
Mark Twain

“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
Will Rogers

“Two years ago it was impossible to get through on the phone to the IRS. Now it’s just hard to get through. That’s progress.”
Charles Rossotti (former IRS Commissioner)

” A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.”
G. Gordon Liddy

“Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids.”
Harvey Mackay

“If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead – if you strike oil.”
J. Paul Getty

“If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract – teach him to deduct.”
Fran Lebowitz

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.”
John Maynard Keynes

“I love America, but I can’t spend the whole year here. I can’t afford the taxes.”
Mick Jagger

“On my income tax 1040 it says ‘Check this box if you are blind.’ I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.”
Tom Lehrer

” I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can’t get killed by a blank?”
Milton Berle

“The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.”
Ronald Reagan

“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”
Barry Goldwater

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2010/03/tax-quotes-for-tax-time/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2008/05/eavesdropped-2/ http://www.sneaker.org/2008/05/eavesdropped-2/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 16:25:58 +0000 sneaker http://www.sneaker.org/?p=389 “Experts say that too often for the underinsured, coverage can seem like health insurance in name only — adequate only as long as they have no medical problems.”

:NYTimes article on Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2008/05/eavesdropped-2/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2008/03/303/ http://www.sneaker.org/2008/03/303/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:14:00 +0000 sneaker http://sneaker.manukumar.org/?p=303 “There are two types of not getting sleep. There is not getting sleep because there is a lot of work. The other is because you can’t sleep. I had a little of both.”

:Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase after their acquisition of Bear Stearns

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2008/03/303/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2007/10/302/ http://www.sneaker.org/2007/10/302/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:56:00 +0000 sneaker http://sneaker.manukumar.org/?p=302 “Have you ever known people who have to turn on a TV or a radio the moment they enter a room, or can’t stand to do work without some sound on? These are people who are desperately afraid of confronting some truth about themselves, so they try to drown it out with constant distractions.”

–MetaFilter user Pastabagel

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V: ” when the mind knows- we call it knowledge. when the heart knows we call it love —-when the being knows , we call it spiritualism”
M: and when we don’t know, we call it ignorance. You can add that as my contribution :-)

:sneaker, April 08, 2007

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2007/04/301/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2006/08/300/ http://www.sneaker.org/2006/08/300/#comments Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:27:00 +0000 sneaker http://sneaker.manukumar.org/?p=300 When all is said and done, the journey is the reward.
:Randy Komisar in his book The Monk and the Riddle

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2006/08/300/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2006/04/299/ http://www.sneaker.org/2006/04/299/#comments Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:21:00 +0000 sneaker http://sneaker.manukumar.org/?p=299 People stare at their computer’s all day long. I want to build a computer that not only looks back but uses the rich information in the eyes of the user to make the interface and the interaction smarter and more natural.

:sneaker, April 2006 (research motivation)

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2006/04/299/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2005/07/298/ http://www.sneaker.org/2005/07/298/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2005 16:22:00 +0000 sneaker http://sneaker.manukumar.org/?p=298 “The mind is a very fragile thing, and I strongly believe
that no stimulus and no words can go by without affecting a
person — I don’t claim to know more or less about what is
true or not, but I do believe in being pragmatic and using
ones own judgment and critical thinking to set the
boundaries for our actions.”

:sneaker, Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:44:19

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2005/07/298/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2005/05/297/ http://www.sneaker.org/2005/05/297/#comments Thu, 19 May 2005 00:17:00 +0000 sneaker http://sneaker.manukumar.org/?p=297 I’m about to OD on OS.
:sneaker, pre-quals

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]]> http://www.sneaker.org/2005/05/297/feed/ 0 Eavesdropped! http://www.sneaker.org/2005/02/296/ http://www.sneaker.org/2005/02/296/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:58:00 +0000 sneaker http://sneaker.manukumar.org/?p=296 “Microsoft is so big that they create their own weather.”
:Mitch Stein in the Winograd/Norman Evolution of Ideas and Products class

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