A biography for Shiv Nadarhasn’t been written yet.
“HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers.”
“It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.”
“When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is all about applied maths and physics. If I were to learn anything further in physics or mathematics, it simply was not there.”
“In South, getting admission in SSN is not possible just because someone is my relative. One of the ministers said SSN is the only institution where I can't get a seat for anyone. That's true of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments, too.”
“The IP is a completely different side of the IT, and that is what we want Vijayawada for.”
“The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked!”
“All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.”
“If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam.”
“On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1,000 movies during college.”
“The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.”
“We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.”
“If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.”
“After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.”