SHIVA AYYADURAI

In countries like India or China, a Steve Jobs will never come around. The fundamentals aren't there - there's this feudal hierarchy.

I have lived the American Dream.

Western medicine was developed for crisis and war, such as if you got shot or wounded, to put the soldier back on the battlefield. It works well for catastrophic situations, but it is absolutely ignorant about prevention and lifestyle.

Jobs cannot be created if innovation is restricted to large corporates.

Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.

I grew up playing baseball, playing soccer, having a paper route, while running my own small lawn mowing and snow shovelling businesses as a kid.

I saw Trump as a necessary force to disrupt a broken system that was no longer serving the American people.

I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.

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.

Prior to 1980, people used to dictate to a secretary for preparing written documents and that person would then punch keys on a typewriter. I was inspired to invent a medium for doing this work by engaging just one person.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

Since the day I was born as a low-caste Indian, I've had to fight.

I didn't even know about MIT until two weeks before I applied.

Email cannot die in the near future because of its universal acceptance.

I've always had a deep distaste, since 1984, for both Republicans and Democrats.

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.

Our ancient yogis and sages were not just medical healers, but systems scientists and systems engineers, who saw the body and the universe as an interconnected engineering system, a system of systems that are governed by fundamental engineering systems principles.

Email is here to stay - it's time we got better at using it.

The hatred and the vitriol against Donald Trump has nothing to do with Donald Trump. It has to do with the fact that the academic priesthood lost control of what they call quote-unquote 'ordinary rednecks' - that they're stupid, they don't understand. The fact is, those people actually understand a lot.

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.

Many people don't even know why they're going to college.

Answering phones synchronously is very different than reading an email, sorting it, figuring out which bucket it goes in, and then responding.

Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy.