Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

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.

Shiva Ayyadurai
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.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

That's the nightmare for Elizabeth Warren, because I can attack her from the left. I can say, 'Wait a minute, what do you know about the journey of a person of color? You know nothing. This is all theory to you. Because you did lie. You took advantage of affirmative action.'

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

I fundamentally do not believe in the patenting of software. It would be like Shakespeare patenting the tragic love story.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

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.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

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

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

We can improve the utility of email by maneouvring its use in a constructive manner.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

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

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

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

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

On my 7th birthday, in 1970, I left India and came to America: to this land of incredible opportunity.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

I have lived the American Dream.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

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.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

The Republicans and Democrats profit from war and sickness.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

Email is not the simple exchange of text messages. Email is the electronic version of the interoffice mail system used for formal letter or memo communication.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

As a kid, I learned from my parents, teachers, coaches, and friends that what mattered most was Truth - to uncover it, share it and fight for it. That core value is the foundation of the American Dream. And my life has been about fighting for Truth, at every step.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

I want to stand up for free speech.

Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai

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.