Anant Quotes & Sayings

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done. — Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

Once this pathogenic kernel could be integrated, her anxiety abated, and her ANP and EP fully integrated. — Onno Van Der Hart

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing. — Anant Agarwal

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential? — Anant Agarwal

Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse. — Ingrid Newkirk

EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX. — Anant Agarwal

My family's tradition of 'matching-matching' names is so obsessive, it's against the order of nature. When my uncles Anil and Anant married, they took advantage of a heinous custom in Marathi weddings. After the pheras, a dish of uncooked rice is placed before the newlyweds, and whatever name the husband chooses to write in the rice becomes the new name of his wife.
Because marriage in our culture is akin to buying a puppy at a pet shop and saying, 'I am your new owner, and I shall call you Flu y.'
So Anil Adarkar brought home Asha Adarkar (nee Kiran), and Anant Adarkar brought home Anita Adarkar (nee Geeta). And to complete this picture of divine perfection they named their children Aniket, and Ashwini and Ashleysha, respectively. — Nikita Deshpande

You know I'll be right there with you if you want to go to Germany. Or if you don't, I'll be right there too." "I know," I said. "You always are." "And I always will be." Hot tears pricked at my lashes. I blinked. Because she was wrong. Because she would get older and so would I. She wouldn't always be there. Whether I still needed her or not, she wouldn't always be there. — Laekan Zea Kemp

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. — Anant Agarwal

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback. — Anant Agarwal

My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him. — Nita Ambani

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games. — Anant Agarwal

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats, — Anant Agarwal

This is what award-winning author and international journalist TIMERI MURARI had to say:

Dear Anant

I managed to read 'Skewed Fantasy' a charming story on Chitra and her problems with NRIs and her dreams.

Best wishes
Timeri — Anant Acharya

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with. — Geraldine Brooks

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage ... — Seneca The Younger

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something. — Anant Agarwal

there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you — Rupi Kaur

We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world. — Anant Agarwal

It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity. — John Norman

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing. — Agesilaus II

Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold. — Anant Agarwal

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is. — Anant Agarwal

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)] — William Hazlitt

The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses. — Anant Agarwal

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative. — Harold Geneen