"The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers' money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity."

-- Verghese Kurien

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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.”
“[I am] not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.”
“I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.”
“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.”

Source : "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Book by Helge Kragh, p. 258, 1990.
“In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.”
“Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.”
“The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer is stepping aside for a dual-anchor format on PBS's 'NewsHour'" by Howard Kurtz, www.washingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.
“Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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