Quotes from Shiva Ayyadurai

The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate.

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

I want to stand up for free speech.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

If you think about what the Postal Service fundamentally does, those guys are trained to get mail and sort mail - there's trust verification.

I have lived the American Dream.

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.

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

Email is a fundamental application.

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

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

Lawsuits take a long time.