Women Born In The 1960s

"No one wants to see a child stay in foster care one minute longer than is absolutely necessary to ensure her safety."

"Every day there is something that makes me reflect that this is a historical appointment that is meaningful to other people."

"In every forum and nearly every case, children are impacted. They are impacted when their parents cannot parent due to drug and alcohol issues landing them in court, they are impacted when their needs were not met as children and they become involved in the juvenile justice system."

"I don't know that there's ever been a drum group or those sounds in that building. But there are now, and I wanted to make a public statement that we're here — and that I belong there."

"It is, however, enormously difficult to provide court and social services to these children and families when funding is minimal at best or non-existent at worst."

"Everybody is running with this one now My friend who works at the NFL told me they’re saying it at the NFL. All I need now is Taylor Swift’s boyfriend to wear one. Wouldn’t that be great?."

"I think it’s a disgrace of you people!” she shouted. “I decorated, I cooked, I made it nice!"

"I love you guys, but I can’t say I’m not happy to see you leave,”. “I love you for coming and I love you for leaving."

"Despite the efforts of many tribal judges and the good intentions of state courts, we find ourselves continually justifYing our existence and our skill sets."

"I became really interested in how the law functions as this underpinning of our society and codifies the ways we interact with each other in ways that we don't even really think about."

"We're a very close-knit family, and I think you're born with that. Then comes the personality of each one, it never crossed my mind what I was going to experience, or what my life would become. But I don't regret anything, and I'd choose it all again"

"Eagles don’t fly with pigeons, OK? So go get your bread crumbs and get back to me tomorrow."

"It was gradual, because even in Argentina it was difficult, they always looked for a hair in the egg. It was like wanting to dirty a lot of things that sometimes were true and sometimes weren't. I was 15 years old and I saw the cover of Crónica: “The new girlfriend,” and it was with a showgirl with feathers. And I came from high school, nuns' uniform, but well, they were stages that everyone overcame in their own way. Nobody is born knowing anything about life itself, and maybe mistakes serve you so you don't make them again."

"“I couldn't study. Maybe at that time it was different, and life took me in another direction. What happens is that I lived many years abroad, and it was complicated with my daughters, alone."

"My Dorinda-isms really just come from the moment — and I have a lot of them!"

"“ I cut my hair once and it turned out bad. I had a short section on top that I didn't know how to hide, so I teased it a bit, put it in a ponytail, pinned it back with invisible clips, and it ended up like that. From then on, I've always worn it like that."

". My grandparents were ill and they were living with us. It was a lot of sacrifice because I wanted to help my family ."

"The truth is, I would love to claim it; it would be great if it were mine, but it's highly unlikely. I don't think it's inspired by me,"

"“I was very restless, and my mom made me do sports, languages, piano, painting, typing—any class there was in town, she sent me to learn;"

"“I come back almost every year, and I lived there until I was 14. It's a long time. I always want to go back"

"I have worked in the development of vaccines against infectious pathogens for many years and in the last 2 years have been able to draw on all that I have learned in order to respond to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. I have been so fortunate to work with a very talented and dedicated team who made it possible to develop a vaccine in less time than anyone thought possible."

"I'm interested in how intelligence works, in people and in animals. (I don't think you can understand the former without the latter!) My research starts from a distributed model of intelligence called reactive, behavior-based reasoning. This approach has produced the first robots that can reliably interact with the real world at realistic, animal-like speeds. However, by the time I started working on this problem in 1993, it was already obvious that the approach wasn't scaling very well. In other words, no new purely behavior-based robots have come out that could behave in a significantly more complex way than the early projects such as Herbert and Polly ."

"The best supported theory in science is the theory of evolution. We don't understand evolution perfectly, but we understand it better than we understand gravity. If you don't know basic evolution theory, you will have trouble understanding not only biology, but also modern theories of society (including religion) and intelligence (including artificial intelligence). If you aren't getting a good background on evolution at school, try reading some of the links off John Wilkins's Evolution Links page."

"I was born in South Africa and I lived there until I finished my Ph.D. I loved living in South Africa. I love big open spaces and blue skies. But South Africa doesn’t really focus on space science, and that is one of the reasons I moved to Europe. I am now living in London. I enjoy living in London, but the weather can be very dreary; I find winters particularly difficult. However, I do live in a really nice part of London, which is close to a park and near the river."

"I enjoy sports, although I’m not good at any. I’m not one of those people who just says they’re bad, I really am uncoordinated, but for some reason I enjoy things anyway. At MIT I played soccer with The Cold Booters (I founded their C-league team) and D-league ice hockey with the Halting Problem in 1995 & 2000 (I got to play D league 2 years because I never learned to skate). In Edinburgh I managed to find 3 different weekly bad soccer games. When I first came to Bath, sometimes the Math & CS grad students let me play football with them, and Marina De Vos played squash with me, but then I ran out of time for that. More often I hill walk (mostly to work in Bath), cycle (mostly to work in Mannheim) and very occasionally play"

"There will be times when you don’t think you are doing the right thing, but don’t make any hasty decisions. Just hang on in there and you just might surprise yourself."

"There are contexts in which it is immoral to use generative AI. For example, if you are a judge responsible for grounding a decision in law, you cannot rest that on an approximation of previous cases unknown to you. You want an AI system that helps you retrieve specific, well-documented cases, not one that confabulates fictional cases. You need to ensure you procure the right kind of AI for a task, and the right kind is determined in part by the essentialness of human responsibility."

"So many problems in society have a technical solution rooted in chemistry: sustainable energy, food security, clean water, personalised medicine."

"I was always interested in understanding the natural world, even as a child. I wondered if milk was a pure liquid or whether it was a mixture of things in water, at about age 8. In later schooling, physics seemed boring, biology was messy, and chemistry was just right."

"The country is ruled by a kleptocratic elite that has grown rich off the back of money stolen from its people. Until 2019, its autocratic dictator was Nursultan Nazarbayev. In Kazakhstan, just 162 people own 55% of the wealth — mostly members of Nazarbayev's family or close associates. The country has a poor human rights record and little media freedom... There is Dariga Nazarbayeva and her rumoured husband Kairat Sharipbayev. Dariga is Nazarbayev's eldest daughter. Her empire, estimated by Forbes at $595 million, is hidden in an incredibly complex system of offshore companies, foundations and trusts. Three of her London properties were subject to a failed unexplained wealth order, but investigators at Source Material allege that Nazarbayeva may have misled the UK High Court. Meanwhile, Sharipbayev is allegedly one of the beneficiaries of a $334 million fraud at Kazakh bank Bank RBK, which has been labelled "the bank of the Nazarbayev family"."

"At the end of the day,” she says, you know yourself best"

"I was responsible for filling out the forms to correctly put in order the transactions that they were requesting"

"I had to learn to communicate to very different types of groups of managers with different orientations, different priorities,she says. And that was a real leadership challenge"

"No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you’re perceived to be doing, your job is never done"

"Every day you get up and the world is changing, your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there"

"Every day you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward"

"It was a pretty basic job. But it gave me an appreciation of what it was like to be responsible for really important things in people’s lives and making sure that they were always done accurately and correctly"

"lots of people will give you advice…and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid"

"Keep moving, don’t get hung up on being a perfectionist"

"taking smart risks and practicing pace over perfection"

"I think a liberal arts education is actually a great background for our industry. I feel that really strongly"

"What’s important to us is that people who come to us with liberal arts backgrounds are dedicated students and want to learn. So if we put something in front of you, you’re going to learn it. You’re going to study it. You’re going to think, you’re going to ask questions, and you’re going to understand how to communicate well, because that’s a lot of what you learn from your liberal arts education"

"That sense of accountability is really, really critical"

"thinking and working across the organization is really important—trying to take the perspective of other groups around the company"

"There are a lot of great reasons why anybody—but particularly women—should consider doing something like being an analyst"

"It’s a very independent kind of a job where you set your own direction on a day-to-day basis. You have a lot of demands and a lot of deliverables, but you actually have a lot of control over planning your time. You obviously have to be responsible and deliver your results, but there are a lot of different ways that you can do that"

"I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises"

"I can only aspire to be as creative as [my father has] been in his career,” she says. “But that was always an influence on me: Don’t assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that. You have to think that the answer and the right answer for you and your organization might not be something that’s been done before. And it’s up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully"

"Based on everybody’s contributions about what they see changing, what can we try that would be something new and different"

"We are in the midst of a major transition that takes advantage of technology to deliver better service"