Philosophy
Arfa Karim Randhawa, the computer programming prodigy who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at 9 years old, has passed away at the age of 16, according to reports out of her native Pakistan this weekend.
She had been in the hospital for nearly a month after reportedly suffering an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest. Two weeks ago her outlook appeared to improve. In recent weeks, Microsoft had stepped in to help provide expert medical care.
As explained in this earlier post, I met Arfa and wrote a story about her in 2005 as a newspaper reporter covering her visit to the Microsoft campus in Redmond, when she was 10 years old.
Arfa at 10 years old had also settled on her philosophy of life, and committed it to memory. She told me about it after our interview, when she was having her picture taken outside, so I turned my recorder back on and asked her to repeat it for me on tape.
“If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,” she said. “If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.”
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Philosophy
Deceased--Arfa Karim Randhawa
Arfa Karim Randhawa
1995-2012
"Arfa Karim Randhawa, 1995-2012: Hear her philosophy of life"
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Todd Bishop
January 14th, 2012
Geek Wire
1995-2012
The youngest mentioned here. Physics at its worst.
"Arfa Karim Randhawa, 1995-2012: Hear her philosophy of life"
by
Todd Bishop
January 14th, 2012
Geek Wire
Arfa Karim Randhawa, the computer programming prodigy who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at 9 years old, has passed away at the age of 16, according to reports out of her native Pakistan this weekend.
She had been in the hospital for nearly a month after reportedly suffering an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest. Two weeks ago her outlook appeared to improve. In recent weeks, Microsoft had stepped in to help provide expert medical care.
As explained in this earlier post, I met Arfa and wrote a story about her in 2005 as a newspaper reporter covering her visit to the Microsoft campus in Redmond, when she was 10 years old.
Arfa at 10 years old had also settled on her philosophy of life, and committed it to memory. She told me about it after our interview, when she was having her picture taken outside, so I turned my recorder back on and asked her to repeat it for me on tape.
“If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,” she said. “If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.”
- Is Shyness A Vice?
Had a student raise this question with me the other day. In our culture, we reward the extrovert. Putting yourself out there is seen as evidence of substance of character. The great individual is the one who acts, not who watches. Be a leader, not a sheep....
- Confidence
What is it to be confident? It's easy to fall into a bad way of thinking about our psychological concepts. We tend to think that we can know, through introspection, whether a psychological concept can be properly applied to us. We think that we just...
- Standard Pcs Are To Be Fossilized
It was going to happen. Will you miss the external components, mass of wires and cables, the weight, the space it occupies? "Era of the PC 'coming to a close'" August 11th, 2011 BBC NEWS PCs are going the way of typewriters,...
- Laura Dekker Update
"How Young Is Too Young? Dutch Sailing Phenom’s Record Attempt Raises Safety Concerns" by Erik Malinowski August 6th, 2010 Wired Just two months after Abby Sunderland, a 16-year-old from Southern California, was rescued from a failed attempt to...
- Feynman's Physics Lectures...online
"Bill Gates puts Feynman physics lectures online" by Mike Magee July 15th, 2009 TG Daily A collection of lectures delivered by physicist Richard Feynman and privately bought by Microsoft founder Bill Gates have been posted online. Feynman shared...