"I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web."

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Source : "Slumdog professor". Interview with Lucy Tobin, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

Sugata Mitra

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“Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.”
“I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.”
“If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business.”
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source : Ernst Cassirer, Maureen Lukay (2006). “An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture”, Meiner Verlag
“The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.”
“A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.”

Source : Irving Langmuir (1962). “The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir: Langmuir, the man and the scientist, including a biography by Albert Rosenfield”
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"”

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