Court Quote by Shiva Ayyadurai

On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for 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…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys…

— Mike McCue

Dear Microsoft Word, I'm pretty sure I spelled my name right. Sincerely, EVERYBODY WITH AN UN-COMMON NAME

— Anonymous

I was an early user of AOL - so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was…

— Walt Mossberg

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I feel like an email cross-dresser - I use a Microsoft product on my Apple product to access my Google product.

— Brad Feld

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The invention of email evolved from a challenge to solve a real world problem.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day…

— Mark Twain

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai