Shiva Ayyadurai

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I am humbled to be selected as a TiE Star recipient and to be included among such an esteemed group of true…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Be the light. Know the truth. God bless you.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— 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.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I discovered the foundations of Ayurveda and Siddha, and more importantly I found that all of Western control systems engineering principles had…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

— 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…

— 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

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

The hatred and the vitriol against Donald Trump has nothing to do with Donald Trump. It has to do with the fact…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Email is not the simple exchange of text messages. Email is the electronic version of the interoffice mail system used for formal…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

The Republicans and Democrats profit from war and sickness.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

For me, defeating Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts is driving a bigger blow to these institutions of power right in the belly of…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— 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…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I, in fact, believe people should work before they even go to school.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai