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"Culturally, we look for people who are able to work in teams. It's not a one-man show. We have a number of different businesses, but all of them are characterized by delivering value by combining new ideas and high quality execution, so that, in the end, one plus one equals three."

"I remember feeling a distinct sense of unfairness at the fact that many hardworking people, especially women and small business owners, were excluded from the formal banking system because of factors out of their control."

"I have been motivated by a desire to enact a change and to create pathways to financial independence and stability. In time, this led to my professional journey into finance and the birth of eShandi."

"Through technology, we could streamline operations, enhance customer experience, and offer a comprehensive financial ecosystem that addresses diverse financial needs."

"we invested in secure, scalable platforms and leveraged local talent to ensure our solutions were reliable, user-friendly, and adaptable to our customers’ needs."

"We hope to foster a more inclusive financial landscape that supports sustainable growth and economic resilience for all, thereby playing a role in unleashing a new generation of solid and sustainable economic development in Africa."

"You're really trying to understand how the universe works. What could be more exciting than that"

"If you have someone in your department who is toxic, you need to figure out how to protect students from them"

"19TH JULY SACRED GROVES Ancient Rome The Roman term ' (plural luci) referes to a class of woodland with special religious significance. Luci took the form of sacred groves or clearings, often featuring special trees and springs. They were places of celebration, communion and ritual offering. Well-documented examples include in (now in ) and (now the city of ). The was celebrated within such groves on 19th and 20th July."

"We speak of as if rock were the epitome of durability. It isn’t. Where rock meets water, it is water that wins in time, every time, and there are few places in England where this is more obviously true than the . Hollowness is ubiquitous here; a landscape riddled with caves and pots and channels. You can even watch them forming in many rivers and becks, where below most drops, you can find circular dishings in the rock, some shallow, some deep, some containing pebbles conscripted to the river’s work; swirling and scouring, day and night. ... It’s not necessarily the speed, volume or power of a river that wins, but its relentlessness. It needs no breath, no sleep, no pause to stretch or shake. And in time, without fuss or ceremony, it will take heat from flesh, life from limb, tree from bank, rock from channel, mountain from continent. It will hollow the land. And it demands total respect."

"Water reveals how small our lives are in time as well as space. Less than 0.025% of the water on our planet exists in all the world’s rivers, lakes, marshes and biological s combined. A river is water’s chance to flicker and dance under the sun before it returns to the deep, dark ocean, is frozen in or stored away underground, sometimes for hundreds of millennia. Flowing water moves mountains, it hollows and builds land. It provides the medium in which the chemistry of life recycles and reorganises energy and matter."

"... "wild service" ... is an ethos ... giving back to nature — but also, obviously, it's the name of . ... it's, after all, the tree of generosity and hospitality that used to be grown on the grounds of s, because beer was . So when you see a pub called "The Chequers", it's named for this wonderful ..."

"The dream of the intelligent machine is the vision of creating something that does not depend on having people preprogram its problem‐solving behaviour. Put another way, artificial intelligence (AI) should not seek to merely solve problems but should rather seek to solve the problem of how to solve problems. This chapter seeks to provide a focused explication of particular methods that indeed allow machines to improve themselves by learning from experience and to explain the fundamental theoretical and practical considerations of applying them to problems of machine learning. To begin this explication, the discussion first goes back to the Turing Test. The acceptance of the Turing Test focused attention on mimicking human behaviour. A human may be described as an intelligent problem‐solving machine. The idea of constructing an artificial brain or neural network has been proposed many times."

"There’s nothing I won’t do. Literally, I still cold-call people. I called Lee Daniels the other day — I didn’t know him, I don’t know him. I said ‘hey, I don’t know if there are any productions, but I just want to kind of sit on your set’… I try to know every facet of what someone is doing so I can at least speak to it. Humility is key if you really want to know what you’re doing. I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that I immerse myself in the process because it’s really immersive. And I think you don’t know what situation you can learn from, but I’m going back to that place in my life of trying to figure it out. Basically, I don’t know what I’m doing is what I’m saying"

"I do feel like I’d rather be doing the wrong something than nothing"

"Your time is to take advantage of the opportunity. You can fix something that’s wrong, but you can’t go back to a moment that you couldn’t take advantage of"

"The main goal of my research is to dramatically increase our ability to mine actionable knowledge from unstructured text. I am especially interested in information extraction from the Web, understanding the connections between people and between organizations, expert finding, social network analysis, and mining the scientific literature & community."

"Toward this end my group develops and employs various methods in statistical machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval and data mining---tending toward probabilistic approaches and graphical models. For more information see our current projects and publications."

"We have publicly launched Rexa, a new research paper search engine. It is a sibling to CiteSeer and Google Scholar, except that it provides search and browsing over more "object types", including not just papers, but also people, grants and topics."

"have lived a life of peace and enjoyment, loving my family, friends, church and all."

"I am tired of being so situated as to accomplish so little either for myself or anybody else."

"Our hospital work is entirely among the poor, ignorant, and superstitious class of colored people of Charleston and its counties,” consisting mostly of those “who believe in all kinds of signs and conjuration."

"All ages, classes, races, called her blessed."

"For one Million dollars I will act nude."

"Keep moving forward."

"I believe when one’s mind is changed, what he or she believes about one’s country or oneself would also change."

"It was an early fall morning, months after Peter McVries won the Long Walk, when the Musketeers' next of kin – Ginny Garraty, Clementine Olson, and Geraldine Baker – each heard a knock at their door. When they opened it, no one was there. Instead, they each found a large envelope filled with more money than any of them had ever seen. These mysterious envelopes kept arriving, month after month, for as long as they could remember. And one day not long after the first envelopes arrived, Geraldine Baker received a small parcel. Inside was a rosary and cross."

"Walk or die."

"The only difference is that cognitive science is more committed to understanding existing biological cognition, as opposed to all possible cognition, which is what AI studies. So, to cite a well-worn analogy, cognitive science is to AI as ornithology is to aerodynamics."

"I think AI researchers are always trying to make the problems they study a tad more general than an engineer is happy with. They force the problem into an area which is a little less structured, so the solutions are a little less defined, and we always have to use heuristics to solve them."

"You could say that the definition of the problem is part of AI. For example, with the visual tracking work that's going on here at Yale, the problem is to track something. But what's a ``thing? What counts as a ``something?"

"Well, we're not sure. We look at things that people seem to be able to track, and those are the things the human visual system picks out as trackable things, but that's not a very well-defined concept. Nonetheless, we feel that there's a real problem there, and we can show that the solutions are of great benefit in certain cases."

"An engineer might throw his hands up at a problem like that and say ``Bring me something a little bit more defined than that. I'm willing to print bar codes on a thing, so it's clear what it means to track them. In the long run, it's conceivable that there will be no difference between engineering and AI. It's hard to say."

"I am interested in making smart systems that help people and machines function better,"

"My application areas cover a wide range of domain areas, but often in earth and space science informatics and health informatics."

"It was my privilege to be among those who participated in this event in the 'coming of age' of cybernetics."

"As designers of robots (or avatars) we need to consider these statistics and consider how to integrate body language into natural language communication. Therefor Geppetto Labs has built a platform to automatically generate body language and coordinate it with what a robot (or avatar) is saying."

"Body language makes up about 40% of natural language: This can be automatically generated."

"Videos do an excellent job of conveying the importance of body language. A great video to watch is The History Channel’s Secrets of Body Language."

"So if we want people to engage emotionally with robots, or avatars (or any other kind of character that is rigged up to an NLP system), we need to consider using body language as part of that system. We humans are hardwired that way."

"Two people within the last month have brought their idols and desired to be known as believers in the God of gods,” she wrote on October 10, 1887. “I shall keep them to show to friends in America as the first trophies of my Congo work.”"

"He drew me unto Himself, and after passing through the shadow of doubts, I entered into the blessed light of His love“"

"I was truly happy then, and since I have set sail for the benighted country, I am happier,” she wrote. “When I reach the doleful shores, I shall be happiest. What comfort comes to us from doing the perfect will of God concerning us!”"

"We have a mission house two miles away, where I work mornings in the capacity of preacher, teacher, and doctor,” she wrote. “I hope to be allowed two years home to study medicine, to better help these suffering people."

"I used to have everything — all the cards and books and pamphlets and notes. Now I have my iPhone"

"I love the balance I have. I love every facet of my life. I love shift work, and I also love being an administrator. I think I’m a better physician for being the leader of the team because I have a global perspective, and I’m not just affecting the lives of however many patients I see on shift, but also the 50,000 patients that pass through our ED. To lead a team that changes the story of emergency care, that’s amazing."

"Take your own pulse during a chaotic shift. I will intentionally dial back. I take longer breaths. I move very deliberately. Then I triage. Who’s going to die? Who just thinks they are? You can’t be hassled; you’re the captain of the ship, and everybody takes their cue from you. I’m never nervous. I have a plan A, B, C — I have a plan Z."

"you have to work very hard, be 10 times as good as the next person, and remember the world is not fair, so no whining."

"I am grateful for this opportunity. I look forward to serving the residents of Hudson County and continuing to deliver safe, cutting-edge, effective, and equitable treatment. It is a true privilege to lead the clinical effort at Jersey City Medical Center and to create sustainable health outcomes for our community."

"I love everything about practising emergency medicine. I love the people, I love the stories, I like the sounds, the chaos, the adrenaline, the constant union of operations and medicine and not knowing what’s going to come next. I like taking care of people in their most vulnerable states. I love physiology and science, and to listen to people’s stories, so there’s no greater privilege than to be an emergency medicine physician. I wake up every day thinking I’m the luckiest person in the world."