All Quotes

"It's one thing to give someone counsel, it is another thing to open doors to introduce them to people, to connect them with opportunities. That is what it is going to take to help us catapult forward."

"It sets us up to feel as though if we don’t succeed, it is our own fault."

"Instead of focusing on what women can do for themselves, I’m focusing on what we can all do to push back against these larger questions of what makes someone less likeable."

"Be ambitious, be wildly ambitious, because if you constantly run up against people who are telling you ‘no,’ ambition is the only thing that motors you through."

"I think I was always a very ambitious person. I always wanted a little bit more out of the world. So even when I was in school, I always wanted to add extra things."

"So for me with entrepreneurship, I’ll be honest with you, I wanted to be a pilot because I have a fear of heights. So every time I’m afraid of something, I like jumping into it so that I can get over that fear."

"So being an entrepreneur for me, I think it started with problem solving because even when you get into business, they tell you it’s all about solving a problem."

"It was just a startup, so there was no money, there was nothing, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. Then as I was working in that agricultural space, I saw a gap in the industry and a couple of issues in the soil preparation market."

"There’s a certain problem you need to solve. So I saw that problem and I felt that, know what, I’m going to do something about it. I want to change the way farming is done because it’s so unsustainable and it’s destroying the environment and people are not having access to food because of it."

"Whether or not I make it or I don’t make it, I don’t think anyone’s going to shoot me. So let me just go for it."

"It doesn’t have to look a certain way; it just has to work for you. Whether that is getting up at 5am (I personally couldn’t think of anything worse) or taking half an hour a day to turn all your devices off and read a book – whatever it is it doesn’t have to fit in with what other people think it should."

"I have sometimes found people raise an eyebrow at me when I talk about my lifestyle – but it’s what works for me!"

"I think people sometimes feel pressured to achieve a certain lifestyle – or what ‘work-life balance’ should look like."

"Sometimes it’s unconventional! Some of those conversations are what led to my podcast episode on founder wellbeing and mental health. So, I would be remiss in not pointing you towards my podcast, Now, That’s What I Call Business!"

"“I was raised to remember that I come from those who survived.”"

"“From both sides of my family, [there is] a very heavy emphasis on the importance of education, which is something that has really been the key to my ability to do what I’ve done … To take my education seriously, and to be able to go to college and beyond that has absolutely been foundational to my success.”"

"“On both sides of my family, governments, other entities, really sought to wipe us out … My father really instilled in me the importance of recognizing that I came from people who persisted, people who were lucky enough to survive, and that my existence is dependent upon those people’s persistence and resilience.”"

"“I believe my role is to listen carefully, with neutrality and fairness, and to apply the law regardless of my personal, subjective beliefs.”"

"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."

"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."

"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 know that and can address those issues in a systematic way, recognizing that these families are complex systems and that the parents come to the court not solely borne out oftheir own difficulties and bad choices, but also out ofthe pattern of abuse and neglect that has been part oftheir family for generations."

"There is no doubt in my mind and in my experience that the therapeutic approach benefits the individual, and therefore the community, far more."

"All children deserve stability and most agree that a child in foster care lacks stability."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"My view has been since the moment I decided to apply for this position, I'm going to be who I am."

"If Gov. [Jay] Inslee or the public doesn't embrace that, that's OK, but I can't pretend to be someone other than who I am."

"I've had people say, ‘You don't look like a judge,’ and they've said that in lots of different ways. [But] I do look like a Supreme Court justice, because I am one."

"It really has been only recently that I've seen the judiciary recognize that and want to take a leadership role in that area. That's absolutely something that I think is a critical part of what a supreme court does and should be doing — in terms of talking about [this problem] and acknowledging that it exists, but also being a problem solver."

"Every single family in my years of tribal court work had a story to tell about that."

"I know what that intergenerational trauma looks like and what the consequences are. If I have the ability in this position to give a voice to that story, I'm going to take it."

"The assumption has been, throughout my entire career, that because I am not white that I am not fair or I am not neutral."

"I’m not afforded the presumption of neutrality or objectivity that my colleagues are — I have to prove that I am neutral or objective."

"It's part of my obligation that I do whatever possible in this position to encourage other people who are otherwise underrepresented — whether that's communities of color, first-generation college students, people from poor communities — to picture themselves in roles that have otherwise been closed to them."

"I'm not in this because I want to be in the history books as someone who was the first. That matters, and it matters to a lot of people. But what really matters to me is that I not be the last."

"The startup spirit has always sought to free itself of corporate-isms. When it came to setting the tone of their founding team,"

"Startups often have a black box mentality when it comes to socialising with competition."

"For mission-driven startups, entering territories with greater risk from a business perspective could raise flags but when viewed from a mission perspective, not tackling them could be worse."

"I am a Professor Emeritus in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science (SCS). That means I am formally retired, but still active in research, advising, and departmental activities. My home department is the Language Technologies Institute (LTI). I am also emeritus faculty in the Computer Science Department (CSD)."

"As a researcher, I am primarily interested in Artificial Intelligence and its applications. I have worked in many areas of AI: planning, knowledge representation and reasoning, image processing, natural language processing, document classification, artificial neural networks, and the use of massively parallel machines to solve AI problems. I am also interested in the use of AI techniques to build better user interfaces and context-aware systems."

"Currently, I am working on Scone, a practical Knowledge Base System (KBS) that can represent a large body of real-world knowledge and that can efficiently perform the kinds of search and inference that seem so effortless for us humans. This work is based in part on the NETL system that I developed for my Ph.D. thesis in the late 1970s, but the Scone system is designed to run on standard laptops, desktop machines, and servers rather than on special parallel hardware."

"We can come together all over the country under this grassroots movement and engage with government on different levels."

"My research group has worked on a number of applications of Scone, with a special focus on using Scone to support knowledge-based natural language understanding and generation. I believe that Scone-like knowledge base systems will be important tools in the future, perhaps used in even more ways than database systems are used today."

"I am also working on some ideas for new learning architectures for deep-learning networks, inspired in part by the Cascade Correlation architecture that I developed in 1990 with Chris Lebiere."

"I was one of the core developers of the Common Lisp language, and my research group developed the CMU Common Lisp implementation which formed the basis for many commercial Common Lisp systems, and now is maintained as open-source software, along with a split-off version, Steel Bank Common Lisp."

"In 1982, I proposed the use of :-) and :-( in posts and Email messages. These are generally regarded as the first internet emoticons, and the text-only ancestors of today’s graphical emojis."

"Bold Leadership is having the confidence and the capability to attract others and to inspire, motivate and support them in achieving predefined goals and objectives."