I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
If something fails where you thought it would fail, that is not a failure.
The greatest thing to come out of my country is not Ganges water, or the Taj Mahal, or the Himalayas, but the fact that it is the world's largest democracy.
Mathematics is not just about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
The future belongs to those who can balance short-term performance with long-term vision.
We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.