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Quotes from Shiva Ayyadurai

Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.
~ 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
For me, defeating Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts is driving a bigger blow to these institutions of power right in the belly of the beast.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
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.'
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
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.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I discovered the foundations of Ayurveda and Siddha, and more importantly I found that all of Western control systems engineering principles had actually been discovered by the great ancient Indian sages, 5,000 years ago.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I saw Trump as a necessary force to disrupt a broken system that was no longer serving the American people.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working for the military or for a defense contractor, and I must have seemed too young and too naive to stand up for the truth.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
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.
~ 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
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
Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
Be the light. Know the truth. God bless you.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
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.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai