Nilekani's Quotes

#1. Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

Arundhati Roy

#2. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Thomas Browne

#3. Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

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#4. I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

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#5. You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

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#6. My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

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#7. 12This is what our Scriptures come to teach: in everything, in every circumstance, do to others as you would have them do to you.

Anonymous

#8. I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

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#9. Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

Ismail Haniyeh

#10. Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.

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#11. Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

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#12. When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

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#13. I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.

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#14. I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

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#15. In my spare time I didn't go out, I sat and read novels I got from the library: Grazia Deledda, Pirandello, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky.

Elena Ferrante

#16. I am not in politics to make more money.

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#17. The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

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#18. Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember I like blondes. I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone.

Joe Diffie

#19. I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

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#20. Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

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#21. I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

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#22. I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

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#23. It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

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#24. Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

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#25. Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Erica Jong

#26. My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

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#27. We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

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#28. I was just walking out of school from cheer practice and she walks right up to me and says "Come with me if you want to live." I laughed so hard at her I almost peed my pants. I mean who says that? It was pretty clear she wasn't from this planet. Everyone knows who the Terminator is.

Shelly Crane

#29. Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

Lynn Freed

#30. My background is putting in large systems that change lives ... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

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#31. Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

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#32. Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

Zubin Mehta