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“I have lived the American Dream.”
“Social media is like a big trade-show. You get to network... you get to make friends and followers. But email is where those friends and followers become customers.”
“A quick search through the U.S. Copyright Office's website will show that email was first used in 1979 and has been registered under 'Shiva Ayyadurai.'”
“In 1978, there was a 14-year-old boy working in Newark. He did in fact create the inter-office mail system and called it email. What they did before 1978 was text messaging.”
“The innovators' spirit of America still exists. However, there is a narrative in America which goes like - you must go to MIT to get your calling card. Or you go to Harvard and then you drop out and then you've made it.”
“Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.”
“I've always had a deep distaste, since 1984, for both Republicans and Democrats.”
“Answering phones synchronously is very different than reading an email, sorting it, figuring out which bucket it goes in, and then responding.”
“I fundamentally do not believe in the patenting of software. It would be like Shakespeare patenting the tragic love story.”
“I'm a brown-skinned Indian immigrant, low-caste untouchable - I don't know how many labels you want to put on me - who's fought all his life.”
“I came to CSIR with a passion to apply all of my scientific - entrepreneurial talents to help uplift the masses of Indians through the delivery of technologies.”
“Be the light. Know the truth. God bless you.”
“Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.”
“Many people don't even know why they're going to college.”
“The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.”
“You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.”
“I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.”
“When I was at MIT I was a good model minority. But the concept of an Indian immigrant creating e-mail in Newark, N.J., blows the mind of certain people.”
“I am humbled to be selected as a TiE Star recipient and to be included among such an esteemed group of true innovators and intrepid entrepreneurs.”
“I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.”