Shiva Ayyadurai

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

Email is not the simple exchange of text messages. Email is the electronic version of the interoffice mail system used for formal letter or memo communication.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

The Republicans and Democrats profit from war and sickness.

I grew up playing baseball, playing soccer, having a paper route, while running my own small lawn mowing and snow shovelling businesses as a kid.

I have lived the American Dream.

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

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

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.

Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email.

I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents.

We can improve the utility of email by maneouvring its use in a constructive manner.

Email cannot die in the near future because of its universal acceptance.

I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.

Prior to 1980, people used to dictate to a secretary for preparing written documents and that person would then punch keys on a typewriter. I was inspired to invent a medium for doing this work by engaging just one person.

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 Ayyadurai.'

Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.

Jobs cannot be created if innovation is restricted to large corporates.

Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy.

Innovation and meritocracy was what America was based on.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

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

Email is a fundamental application.

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

In countries like India or China, a Steve Jobs will never come around. The fundamentals aren't there - there's this feudal hierarchy.

Social media is like a big trade-show. You get to network... you get to make friends and followers. But email is where those friends and followers become customers.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

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

Western medicine was developed for crisis and war, such as if you got shot or wounded, to put the soldier back on the battlefield. It works well for catastrophic situations, but it is absolutely ignorant about prevention and lifestyle.

I'm a brown-skinned Indian immigrant, low-caste untouchable - I don't know how many labels you want to put on me - who's fought all his life.

I want to stand up for free speech.

In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working for the military or for a defense contractor, and I must have seemed too young and too naive to stand up for the truth.

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

As a kid, I learned from my parents, teachers, coaches, and friends that what mattered most was Truth - to uncover it, share it and fight for it. That core value is the foundation of the American Dream. And my life has been about fighting for Truth, at every step.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

I came to CSIR with a passion to apply all of my scientific - entrepreneurial talents to help uplift the masses of Indians through the delivery of technologies.

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

I discovered the foundations of Ayurveda and Siddha, and more importantly I found that all of Western control systems engineering principles had actually been discovered by the great ancient Indian sages, 5,000 years ago.

The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats.

I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

In our case, I, a working engineer, inventor and scientist, am bringing new innovation to campaigning to enable a grass-roots movement.

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

When I was at MIT I was a good model minority. But the concept of an Indian immigrant creating e-mail in Newark, N.J., blows the mind of certain people.

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate.

I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.

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

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