Hi, I am Pankaj Kumar. I work in the enterprise software space as a Principal Technology Consultant at SAP America of Palo Alto, CA. I use this weblog to share my thoughts about my professional life as a SAP professional.Slaves of numbers
Nilesh, our resident bekaar bheja aka idle mind was on a trip to Silicon Valley as a part of his MBA at Johnson. They call it networking 
. I took him to the Santa Clara City Library and he suggested “Against the Gods” as a good reading. I am glad he did that. It is a lucid tale of Risk. I will write about it detail in another post. The following paragraph intrigued me so I am posting it over here.
Our lives teem with numbers, but we sometimes forget that numbers are only tools. They have no soul; they may indeed become fetishes. Many of our most critical decisions are made by computers, contraptions that devour like voracious monsters and insist on being nourished with ever-greater quantities of digits to crunch, digest and spew back.
Read a quote in a case from the Harvard Business school which says, “In God we trust, all others must bring data”.
Funny and somewhat relevant.
Nilesh
And god says, “What you sow, shall you reap”. How in the world (or even in outer space) is this possible if someone were not keeping an account of our doings and crunching all that data?
Vivek