Anant Ranka

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel

“Son, life is like a book. It has numerous chapters. It also has many a lesson in it. It is made up of a wide variety of experiences and resembles a pendulum where success and failure, joy and sorrow are merely extremes of the central reality. The lessons to be learnt from success and failure are equally important. More often than not, failure and sorrow are bigger teachers than success and happiness.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“a piece of knowledge, unlike a piece of physical property, can be shared by large groups of people without making anybody poorer.”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz