We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

I can’t find time for busy people. I am as busy as they are!

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The main task before India today is to consolidate herself into a well-knit and united power.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. 

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

There are two kinds of laws people are eternally scared of—in-laws and outlaws!

 Lies die a natural death but truth chases us forever.