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"One of the interesting things we found, when trying to predict how well somebody we’ve hired is going to perform when we evaluate them a year or two later, is one of the best indicators of success within the company was getting the worst possible score on one of your interviews. We rank people from one to four, and if you got a one on one of your interviews, that was a really good indicator of success."

"Right, so that’s the thing. Ninety-nine percent of the people who got a one in one of their interviews we didn’t hire. But the rest of them, in order for us to hire them somebody else had to be so passionate that they pounded on the table and said, “I have to hire this person because I see something in him that’s so great, and this guy who thought he was no good is wrong, and I’ve got to stand up for him and put my reputation on the line.”"

"I don't see myself as a fashion person, and it's not something I really identify with because I've just never thought of myself as one of those girls. Growing up on a farm, among the plants and the horses, nobody cares what you look like. What kind of work you're gonna put in. Are you a nice person? Are you responsible? Do the horses trust you? OK, great.”"

"I'm not a city person but I like the convenience of it. I lived in London for seven or eight years, which was amazing. London has quite a good balance of life; there's lots of greenery. Everybody enjoys work and enjoys taking time off. They enjoy patience, and food - it’s a very European mindset.”"

"What I always found so amazing about fashion is just this idea that you could kind of create whatever persona you wanted to be. It feels amazing to put on a business suit. I love that you could put on high heels and feel like a different person, or you could put on whatever you choose and nobody knows where you came from. They just know who you are in that, what you're projecting.”"

"Originally I hired a tiny little car and drove around. I just drove through Italy knocking on doors. Then we grew up and suppliers came recommended to us, which was a nice moment in time. Even then I was going back and forth to Italy every other week. I got to a point where most Italian immigration officers didn't even check my passport anymore, just ‘Oh, you’re back again’ and I strolled on through.”"

"Italian manufacturers are very specialised and so we get recommendations for new craftsmen from our current factories. Nurturing this relationship is one of the most vital parts of our business. We work with partners - you spend a lot of time with these people and you're heavily dependent on them. It’s important to me that they're nice people, that you can consider them your family. Trust is key.”"

"Trends are quite organic - everyone seems to migrate together. If we’ve done a pointed toe for three seasons, I just want something fresh. Then you look at everybody else's line and you're like, “Oh”. I guess everyone's brain tries to do the opposite at the same time. Everyone's trying to be different and I'm the same.”"

"“I would rather know where the cow came from, that we raised it, that it has one bad day. Just as I would rather grow my own vegetables than buy them from a store. Same goes with manufacturing. We work with incredible artisans so I know where the shoes come from. We are very hands on with the materials, I spend a lot of time looking into alternative fabrics - there is no waste. I'm really weird and geeky about this.”"

"I believe strongly in public education from grade school on, including my time at Krannert,” she says. "The strength of this country has a lot to do with accessible high-quality education, and it has served me well in my career."

"I believe it is important for people who have enjoyed success and achievement to give back and think about who’s coming next," she says. "How do we help them? This has been a cornerstone of my life all along and throughout my career, and it still is."

"we can harness collective intelligence while maintaining rigorous security and ethical standards. The university champions the values and principles of the Western academic tradition as seen in the most advanced universities, and we hold faculty and students to the highest standards of conduct, transparency, and policy compliance."

"I don’t feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything."

"My key to success is endurance. My day is like a marathon. I spend tons of time going from restaurants to meetings with the beverage directors, customers or distributors. I think we have had success because we have spent tons of time with excellent partners in the market, building relationships one by one. It really sells the product in each venue. It is not the most scalable business because it's essential that you have a personal connection with each person and that they buy into the story, that they understand and want to get behind you. After all, without the people who matter in each venue, a brand can't succeed."

"My 15-year career in finance gave me unique skills: looking at cash flow, balance sheet, inventory, and understanding as an operator. I would argue that cash flow is the most critical thing for staying in business and for all entrepreneurs. Having invested 15 years as a CEO and in companies, I have this unique perspective. I probably understand financials better because of my background. We are much more careful with money because I personally sign every single check for everything we do. We have to be scrappy as I don't have the company pocketbook like some of these conglomerates that can waste money on things and see how it works. We have to be incredibly thoughtful and extremely methodical about everything we do. We don't have any benefit when we make mistakes."

"Though fiction is based on unreal things and things which haven’t been done before, I am constantly reminded by the comics that there is no limit to what I can create and achieve"

"I wanted not just to experience technology. I wanted to create it"

"On the contrary, these collaborations serve as an important channel for sharing US culture and values, especially when rooted in academic research and education. They also help build strong relationships between the US and the UAE where we’ve received enthusiastic support from many US diplomats, government officials, and legislators for the work we are doing."

"What we need is not paranoia, but a well-policed and secure arena for international collaboration. This means clear guidelines for research partnerships, robust safeguards against unauthorized technology transfer, and a culture of transparency and ethical conduct in AI research."

"Many of the affiliations and co-appearances with people of Chinese background during our professional activities, as cited in research papers or advisory capacities—like mine or those of scholars from Oxford and MIT—are standard among top global academics."

"Nobody retires from these jobs. You will be fired at some point."

"Because it's one of the great jobs," in a recent interview for Business Insider's podcast, "Success! How I Did It."

"So if you are somebody who is not afraid of risk and you love the creative process, it's great," she said. "Why would you not do it?"

"I made multiple leaps where there were no guarantees that I was going to be successful, By the way, I was not always successful. But I think if you go into something new with an open mind, and you let people around you know what you don't know, for the most part they're going to link arms with you."

"I see many, many young women now — and that's part of what excites me about the startup world — who have left great jobs and said, 'I think I can build something,'" "Eighty percent of them will probably fail at it, but they'll learn a ton, and they'll either be much better when they go back into a corporate job or they'll start a second company and they'll succeed. That's the way that we learn. We learn by making mistakes."

"If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail."

"I Chinasa T. Okolo is the Founder of Technēculturǎ and a former Fellow at Brookings. She recently graduated with a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, where her research leveraged ethnographic methods to understand how frontline healthcare workers in rural India perceive and value AI and analyzed how AI explainability can meet the needs of novice technology users in the Global Majority. Her work has been published at top-tier venues in HCI and sociotechnical computing, including the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) CHI, CSCW, COMPASS, EAAMO, and FAccT conferences. Dr. Okolo has also been recognized as one of the world’s most influential people in AI by TIME Magazine, honored in the inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 AI list, named one of the Most Influential Africans of 2024 by New African Magazine, a Trailblazer in Engineering, and one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™."

"I initially transitioned into AI because I saw how computational techniques could advance biomedical research and democratise access to healthcare for marginalised communities. During my last year of undergrad (at Pomona College), I began research with a human-computer interaction professor, which exposed me to the challenges of bias within AI.”"

"I’m optimistic that AI could help fuel socioeconomic development that has been much needed in Africa for the last half-century, But I’m also concerned that this competition could limit the autonomy of African countries and perpetuate neo-colonial practices that have negatively impacted their economies.”"

"Receiving this recognition a year after earning my PhD and a year into my professional career is considerable motivation for me to continue my research and advocacy.”"

"A significant number of AI tools and systems that have been put into public deployment overstate their capabilities and simply don’t work. Many tasks people aim to use AI for could likely be solved through simpler algorithms or basic automation."

"However, enabling people with the knowledge to understand the limitations of AI may help improve the responsible adoption and usage of these tools. Improving AI and data literacy within the general public will become fundamental as AI tools rapidly become integrated into society.”"

"It’s productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can’t teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be."

"When you look at the number of satellites, what they’re doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have the world in your clutches."

"Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East Germany… you will never hear somebody say, ‘The Stasi never bothered me because I didn’t have anything to hide.’ That’s not a thing that people say."

"I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored."

"If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be able to land at military airfields as a civilian, so there’s got to be some document that the Air Force or the Army has that would list all the civilian aircraft that are cleared to land at military bases."

"The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites."

"When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves."

"Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world."

"Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us — the world of images and image-making that we inhabit — it seems obvious that photography has undergone dramatic changes in its technical, cultural, and critical composition."

"One project I am pretty excited about is ‘Autonomy Cube.’ These are basically minimalist sculptures that create a free and open Wi-Fi network wherever you install them, and they are routed over Tor, which basically anonymizes the traffic of everybody using it."

"Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture."

"We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also started funding other intelligence services in order to use them as proxies. We also know that some of these collaborations were kept off the record; supposedly, there is no paper trail."

"The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing."

"If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it’s fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear."

"I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know."

"Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from physics to fish and wildlife management to human-rights advocacy."

"At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field."

"I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning — it’s not a bug."