C. N. R. Rao Quote

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.

Quoted in "CNR Rao, a high priest of pure science gets Bharat Ratna". IBN Live. 12 November 2012. Retrieved on 22 December 2013.