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"We are addressing it through the cooperatives strategy to link women to markets."

"We put women together to have the volumes and product standards that can fit regional and global markets."

"We have created a database of markets, what is demanded, and in what quantities and standards."

"We are currently running a project with Trademark East Africa targeting 4000 women engaged in urban trade and 400 women who are engaged in light processing for export."

"Individual women business will grow by over 30% in the next few years."

"More women shall also have their products certified and access bigger markets."

"We have gathered information on export and more women are approaching us for export ideas."

"We may, however, not retain many women in agri-business as many are channeling towards manufacturing."

"We need to enhance our integration in the developments and promotion of destination East Africa as one."

"The tourism sector in Uganda is growing."

"There is a lot of opportunity for growth in the sector."

"Uganda has a lot to offer in terms of different attractions and services that could bring the global community to visit here."

"We have a lot of natural endowment in the wildlife, the dramatic landscapes, the unique features like the equator, the source of the Nile."

"We have very good weather averaging 23C throughout the year which is perfect weather any time of the year. Even when it rains, in an hour’s time, it will be bright and shiny and all very nice."

"There is quite a lot to experience here about the history of Uganda."

"We have the architecture, the food, the people."

"Ugandans are a very warm people and very hospitable."

"We have a very diverse culture with 65 different tribes. *Every part of Uganda that you go through, you will experience different cultures, the way of life of the people from the food to their dressing to their dancing and singing."

"Uganda has positioned itself as a cultural destination, as a wildlife safari destination, and as a historical destination."

"Uganda is the diversity that we have as a destination and that provides a huge opportunity for development and growth in the tourism sector."

"The tourism sector in Uganda is one sector that is well positioned to transform the economy of Uganda from a developing country to a developed country."

"Some of the challenges that we have had historically are political issues."

"There is work that we are doing now to provide the incentive to bring in as many investors into the tourism sector in Uganda as possible."

"We have some infrastructure in place in terms of hotels."

"We require more if we are going to attract more numbers into the country while meeting the needs of the different market segments."

"We have lived through very difficult moments, Nicola. We suffered for years, we were unwell, and we rose and were reborn. You must be happy every day of your life, and your happiness must depend especially on yourself."

"I started to control him, I followed him everywhere, day and night. I don't know how I did it, but today my son smiles. I found the son I had lost at eighteen; now he's thirty-six."

"I dreamed for years of the moment when you would take your life back... I knew you would make it, and I wasn't wrong. Now the fog that prevented you from seeing things as they truly are has finally cleared. Today we celebrate your rebirth."

"I believe that clarity, the lack of hypocrisy, are important in this journey, as is sharing with others who are facing the drama of addiction."

"“I have no idea how that works, “I mean, how do you create systems that are so adaptive?”"

"Instead of having to reason about everybody, your car only has to reason about its five neighbors, I can make the system very large, but each individual’s reasoning space remains constant. That’s a traditional notion of scalable —the amount of processing per vehicle stays constant, but we’re allowed to increase the size of the system.”"

"When you think of an ant, there is not a concentrated set of neurons there,referring to the ant’s 20-microgram brain. “Instead, there is a huge amount of awareness in the body itself. I may wonder how an ant solves a problem, but I have to realize that somehow having a physical body full of sensors makes that easier. We do not really understand how to think about that still.”"

"It’s almost like each individual fish acts like a distributed sensor. Instead of me doing all the work, somebody on the left can say, ‘Hey, I saw something.’ When the group divides the labor so that some of us look out for predators while the rest of us eat, it costs less in terms of energy and resources"

"It’s almost like each individual fish acts like a distributed sensor, Instead of me doing all the work, somebody on the left can say, ‘Hey, I saw something.’ When the group divides the labor so that some of us look out for predators while the rest of us eat, it costs less in terms of energy and resources than trying to eat and look out for predators all by yourself."

"“What’s really interesting about large insect colonies and fish schools is that they do really complicated things in a decentralized way, whereas people have a tendency to build hierarchies as soon as we have to work together, “There is a cost to that, and if we try to do that with that with robots, we replicate the whole management structure and cost of a hierarchy.”"

"The other factor is that Amazon’s robots do a mix of centralized and decentralized decision-making, The robots plan their own paths, but they also use the cloud to know more. That lets us ask: Is it better to know everything about all your neighbors all the time? Or is it better to only know about the neighbors that are closer to you?”"

"There are few others [like Amazon] with hundreds of robots moving around safely in a facility space. And the opportunity to work on algorithms in a deployed system was very exciting."

"“Maybe we could do what Amazon is doing, but do it outside, We could have swarms of robots that actually do some sort of practical task. At Amazon, that task is delivery. But given Boston’s snowstorms, I think shoveling the sidewalks would be nice."

"The only way that I will be in charge of this [lab] group is if you let me run it my way and there’s no interference from anyone."

"I’ve made many mistakes in my time,” she told her lab team. I expect you to make mistakes. I expect you to tell me what those mistakes are so we can correct them."

"As African Americans, we are acutely aware that for almost every metric, we see a disparate outcome, with Black and brown people doing worse. Cancer is certainly no different."

"My desire to enter medicine was further defined by otherformative experiences I had at home in DC"

"With radiation oncology, I was able to enjoy the combination of patient care, physics, and biology. And I realized, I was at my best when I was in the clinic seeing patients."

"Even as a young child, seeing him practice medicine resonated with me and inspired me to think about becoming a physician. He was truly a role model"

"I always tell junior faculty to play to the strength of their institution. When you first come in, try not to do something totally different than what others in your institution do. Get your footing on the strengths of your institution and work with a mentor while you're learning the ropes and then become independent with your own new ideas. You want to be focused, then bring new ideas into an existing infrastructure and go from there."

"I believe you go to the most vulnerable. I've saved more lives in a parking lot than I ever did in an operating room."

"When I say it’s no cost, it’s no cost,” she says. “Our job as health care professionals is to first do no harm. And if you're not providing access, to me that is doing harm."

"We need to be part of a solution to a healthier America for all Americans," Stanford said. "And if one group is hurting more particularly in the pandemic, resources need to go to that group."

"“A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.”"

"“A lot of the progress in machine learning – and this is an unpopular opinion in academia – is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.”"