All Quotes

"Everyone is always expecting us to say that we found the next Facebook, but it’s not about that."

"I see the entrepreneurs behind those companies winning prizes and hopping from one podium to the next."

"I am much more interested in companies like Dakar based agency 3W, which is specialised in digital communications, and focused on understanding how Africans interact on social networks."

"Baila Ndiaye, he engineered and built a car in the technical school of Thiès, the third largest city in Senegal."

"He did it entirely with recycled materials. He is a chemist, not even a mechanical engineer, yet his car can reach a speed of up to 100 kilometres per hour."

"You wonder how he was able to imagine such a machine."

"He’s said he also wants to build a tractor and a plane. So there you have it."

"African inventors with great ideas who need nothing more than to be taken seriously."

"People like Baila Ndiaye are the reason we have become active in the maker movement."

"The approach pursued is that of open and communal innovation, networked to invent new ways of doing things, to innovate but together."

"The kids are able to express their creativity and “develop their potential by solving problems through play, experimentation and self-expression."

"It is disappointing to see just how little women have advanced,she said.I've watched the fall of what people call 'the girl boss era'. That's tragic"

"I don't really look at my life as a division of work and personal. I blend it"

"And maybe that works for me. And maybe it doesn't work for someone else. But I will tell you, it is hard"

"How can generative AI actually get you into a healthy, empowering, productive conversation, cut through the noise, cut through the friction? And then get you offline"

"teach people and show them and guide them, how to behave better and to instil confidence in all of our daters"

"If you are chopping veggies, you are forcing yourself to put the phone down or step away from the computer. It's extremely relaxing. As stressful as cooking might be, it's a stress that is different from the stress of the day. It creates a really nice shift of thought process"

"You just never know what you're gonna get, Wolfe Herd told Time.It's tricky because you need so much of your brain during the day to be a CEO. You need a rational, rested mind to function. Everyone says: 'One day at a time.' I actually prefer one hour at a time"

"I spend the first 30 minutes of the morning being cognizant of my family and dog — taking him for a walk, spending time with my fiancé — before it goes into madness and work mode"

"But I've structured it so that that call on the way home is totally sequenced perfectly to get back to my computer to then pick up another two things on Zoom"

"I was informed about this movie after it was already off to the races"

"They had written the script, they were moving ahead, and I asked my lawyer, ‘What do I do? I don’t want a movie made about me. Shut it down.’ He told me there’s nothing I could do"

"I’m both terrified and maybe slightly flattered, but the strangeness and the fear outweigh any flattery"

"I was still in full time art teaching, some of my pupils achieved a lot as budding artists."

"I always inspire them to be the best as young artists."

"They have participated in local and international art competitions and exhibitions and have won national awards."

"One of them is 10-year-old Ayomikun Omoyiola, who was in 2014 invited by the Federal Government of Nigeria to receive a Peace Award through an art work she did."

"It was a great moment for me to see her being given a national award as a young artist."

"I have trained who has excelled at what she does. I felt fulfilled that my efforts were not wasted. For me it was also a validation of advocacy for art education."

"This gave me the privilege of meeting the former President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan and also the President of the European Union, Manuel Barroso."

"I have been very much involved in ICEHA’s Healing Through Art (art therapy) for survivors of Boko haram insurgency in the North East of Nigeria, Also children and young persons living with the sickle-Cell anemia, children and young persons living with cancer and Down syndrome."

"Take responsibility for your future, if you don’t want to end up as a failure."

"Stop blaming your past, start blessing you present so that you can be a blessing in the future."

"You can make it only if you dare."

"In their village a bag of garri is 2,000 naira, so they have the opportunity to make 4,000-naira profit."

"Just like we have physics and we have applied physics, and we have mathematics and applied mathematics, we have fine arts and we have applied arts."

"Basically fine arts include painting, drawing and sculpture. But applied arts involve functional arts, the dimensions of commercial arts."

"Photography basically is not fine arts; I will see it as a kind of applied art, commercial art as it were. Photography is not fine art in any way."

"I’ve been very fortunate to pursue theoretical research and apply AI, finding a way to use it to advance the cause of social justice."

"I’ve usually oriented my research towards producing theoretical breakthroughs via application. The gap between the applied and the theoretical is not that huge. Although people often make the mistake of thinking they’re opposite to one another, this is not the case."

"Personally, my theoretical focus has been on computational game theory, for example. I’ve witnessed cycles in AI where one particular technology suddenly takes over, and DL has certainly carried its weight with its wide-ranging applications."

"As we get closer to limits in these approaches, it’ll become evident that other facets of AI need to be explored."

"a weird quirk I’ve observed is that people are often hesitant towards applying AI towards security work. One of my students was using campus police data to determine where crimes may occur in and around campus. When we presented this at a conference, people were generally taken aback by our findings."

"In my opinion, there needs to be a rehabilitation of sorts for the classes of society that will face the brunt of job loss, like truck drivers when it comes to self-driving tech. While many people will face some crises in this transition, I believe it’ll be a good change in the end. In that sense, I’m more optimistic about AI’s effect on jobs."

"I will discuss mechanistic studies of the factors that contribute to these PTM-mediated protein-protein interactions using a combination of high-throughput mechanistic screening, genetic code expansion, and investigation of PTM-isosteres, and how this has led to novel approaches to inhibit them."

"Post-translational modifications, PTMs, in histone proteins, including lysine methylation and acylation, regulate gene expression through recruitment of reader proteins to the nucleosome. Dysregulation of these events is prevalent in a wide range of diseases, such that there is much interest in characterizing these modifications and their binding partners as well as developing inhibitors for these protein-protein interactions."

"I have always thought that animals are interesting and wondered why they act in certain ways. Why do some dogs get on well, while others fight? How do bees know where to find flowers and pollen, and how do they get back to their hives? Are they really all female? Why are some species so successful while others are continuously threatened and faced with extinction; especially considering that our world is changing much faster than ever before?"

"I am currently involved in a number of larger projects which aim to understand how species (individuals / populations) respond to change."

"Poverty is a human-nature disaster. We have to understand the broad context of poverty and climate change, and the impact of both on humans and nature. We must look at ending poverty from a much broader scope than just social justice. Both poverty and climate change require a fight against all forms of injustice."

"The social and economic impacts affect the poor disproportionately. They are less likely to withstand, cope and recover. Climate change is exacerbating poverty and inequality in society. We need to deal with global warming in an unequal and unjust world."