Bangalore Quotes

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. (Thomas Friedman)
When I was studying in Bangalore, temperature would be around 21 degree and now it is 31 degree. The drastic increase in the level of temperature is due to industrialisation. View quote
Maneka Gandhi
The movement I have initiated against the entry of junk food has already resulted in the reduction of sales of KFC in Bangalore to a record low. View quote
Maneka Gandhi
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. View quote
Thomas Friedman
No dream is ever chased alone. As I look back, I have many people to thank for teaching me and believing in me. My junior coaches in Bangalore and at various junior national camps inculcated in me a powerful love of the game which has always stayed with me. View quote
Rahul Dravid
I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations. View quote
Deepika Padukone
I was a student at the Delhi School at the very end of its Golden Age. The departments of economics and sociology were still world-class. Amartya Sen had left for England and M. N. Srinivas had retired to Bangalore; but Sukhamoy Chakravarty and André Béteille remained. There were also other brilliant scholars on the faculty-such as A. L. Nagar and Kaushik Basu in economics, and Veena Das and J. P. S. Uberoi in sociology. Both departments had active research programmes. View quote
Ramachandra Guha
Humble and self-effacing, Murthy is known to fly economy class and lives in a modest home in Bangalore -- proof, say his fans, that you can combine business success with Gandhian humility. View quote
N. R. Narayana Murthy
The Chinese foreign minister Yang Jia Chi was in Bangalore Tuesday for a bilateral meeting. We are both quite satisfied with the extent of goodwill between us. We are working toward further cordiality between the two countries. The Chinese minister lingered at the dinner in his honor and such gestures indicate the level of relationship between our two countries. View quote
S. M. Krishna
I have a brother in Bangalore. SP is my brother in Chennai. View quote
Rajinikanth
Our society has created a bunch of icons and role models who are distorting not just the future of this city [Bangalore] but of all India, and of our sense of values. Our people have lost respect for scholarship. Money and commerce has taken over. If IT is going to take away our basic values, then you can burn Bangalore and burn IT. (C. N. R. Rao)
Since I set up the Unit, the area of solid state chemistry is no longer called so but is called chemistry of materials. This subject has become important. I set up this Unit in Bangalore much before the subject became important in the world. Now chemistry has two major directions:chemical biology and materials chemistry. View quote
C. N. R. Rao
Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare. View quote
Geoff Mulgan
I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore. View quote
K. V. Thomas
Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP. View quote
Nandan Nilekani
To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share. View quote
Steven Rattner
Whenever my mother went to Bangalore, Daddy would spend a lot of time with us. He would take us all to Chamundi hill in the yellow and red sports Rolls Royce car, which he himself would drive. Of course we also had a Daimler and Austin Prince. View quote
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Bangalore is a brand the world identifies India with. It is also the single biggest reason why India has become such a hot investment destination. View quote
Manmohan Singh
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. View quote
Tom Robbins