Quotes
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
> “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” ― Archimedes ——
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery”
“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem”
Letter from Jefferson to Madison, January 30, 1787
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”
Discourses
Authors
Ayn Rand, Asimov, Vivekananda, Bertrand Russel, H G Wells, Ramesh Menon, Roald Dahl, Jared Diamond, Taleb, Kundera, Steinbeck, Nietzsche
Literary works
The Mahabharata
US declaration of Independence
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
These contemporaries
George Chandy, Paul Graham, Sal Khan, Elon Musk, Devi Shetty, Thomas Sowell Shanti Raghavan
These teachers
- Dr. E Vijayan Nair
- Dr. M P Chandrashekharan
- R. Sridhara Pirharoty
- Rita Paulraj
- Heather Bradley
Others
- Justice Thottathil Radhakrishnan
… and needless to say, some of my colleagues, friends and family