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“However, by the end of 1947, P.C. Joshi found his line challenged by the radical faction of the CPI. They claimed that the freedom that India had obtained was false—‘Ye Azaadi Jhooti Hai’, the slogan went—and asked that the party declare an all-out war against the Government of India.”
― Ramachandra Guha, The Past and Future of the Indian Left

“Economists are more like plumbers; we solve problems with a combination of intuition grounded in science, some guesswork aided by experience, and a bunch of pure trial and error.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“Computers run our world and algorithms run computers, which begs the question: Where do algorithms come from? Fear of poetry, that’s where. Fear of the maddening influence of poetry.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“While Marx himself was a great champion of modern technology, Indian Marxists are technophobic.”
― Ramachandra Guha, The Past and Future of the Indian Left