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"“Sembro un tipo che se la tira, ma non è vero … con gli anni ho imparato che è meglio fidarsi delle persone a poco a poco … questo mio modo di apparire può essere frainteso.”"

"“Da quando avevo 17 anni non mi ero mai fermata: un criceto sulla ruota … un’ora di meditazione, una passeggiata in un bosco: qualsiasi fuga da una vita poco sana.”"

"“E’ antecedente. … Ero affezionata alle mie galline e alle mie mucche. Ora, a Linea Verde, sono tornati utili tutti gli insegnamenti dei miei nonni legati a cucina, terra e natura.”"

"I was born in South Africa and I lived there until I finished my Ph.D. I loved living in South Africa. I love big open spaces and blue skies. But South Africa doesn’t really focus on space science, and that is one of the reasons I moved to Europe. I am now living in London. I enjoy living in London, but the weather can be very dreary; I find winters particularly difficult. However, I do live in a really nice part of London, which is close to a park and near the river."

"There will be times when you don’t think you are doing the right thing, but don’t make any hasty decisions. Just hang on in there and you just might surprise yourself."

"“I was very restless, and my mom made me do sports, languages, piano, painting, typing—any class there was in town, she sent me to learn;"

"“I come back almost every year, and I lived there until I was 14. It's a long time. I always want to go back"

". My grandparents were ill and they were living with us. It was a lot of sacrifice because I wanted to help my family ."

"“ I cut my hair once and it turned out bad. I had a short section on top that I didn't know how to hide, so I teased it a bit, put it in a ponytail, pinned it back with invisible clips, and it ended up like that. From then on, I've always worn it like that."

"The truth is, I would love to claim it; it would be great if it were mine, but it's highly unlikely. I don't think it's inspired by me,"

"The charity’s purpose is to encourage critical thinking and empathy to reduce bullying in schools around gender/sexuality; they achieve this by taking role models into schools to enable open and honest conversations which break down prejudice."

"Turn your emails off, your phone off. You are entitled to have a life."

"Don’t be afraid of difficult conversations. Have them, but with a smile on."

"If you are dreading going to work on a Monday morning for a long period time, change your job"

"It is tougher to run a sustainable business and was much tougher back in the late 90’s and even the 00’s, but it is absolutely essential that sustainable and ethical fashion designers and businesses have pioneered a way for others to follow, as business is now the most powerful vehicle for change in the world, where once before it was government or religion."

"I started in business there were very few women in business here, and women were not well regarded as a good business risk. It was a little bit tough to overcome these issues."

"In 1992, I moved to Johannesburg the City of Gold’ to build the business from there. I opened a small office Guma Group’s first office, in a basement located within an industrial park."

"As we were a relatively new business, I had to learn effective networking and marketing to win clients."

"In 1999 I listed the company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and the sale of some of my stake in the company gave me the liquidity to make other smart and timely investments in tourism, hospitality, property development and mineral exploration."

"We are still expanding and investing into new businesses in Africa and beyond."

"I took on the white-owned I.T. enterprise AST and through entrepreneurial flare in doing so, I saved over 2,000 white jobs; instead of BEE"

"I executed a “White Economic Empowerment ” (WEE) initiative, one achieved by its ‘Black Knight’, ergo the moniker."

"Incidentally my goal wasn't to necessarily press forth AI. It was out of these asides, but AI was used to prove theorems early on. Jerome Simon had one of the first provers that I considered a good AI. Imply was supposed to do the same kind of thing. It was suppose to be an interactive prover and a stand-alone prover at the same time."

"It was built to partly prove theorems, which is one of the jobs that AI does. [inaudible word] emission, theorem proving, and so forth."

"Partly, but partly to see how far we could go with automating the proof of mathematical theorems. That was the intent."

"Yes, that's fair enough. It's not really what I said, though. I mean my goals were independent of the name. I wouldn't call them mathematics either."

"We proved — in the stand-alone mode with heuristics — we proved limit theorems of calculus and that's a good sample"

"No, other AI people who weren't working on theorem provers in particular. I don't know if I can give a lot of references off the top of my head, but that was the state of the art for awhile. It used heuristics and that turned out to be later not as popular amongst the formal automated theorem proving crowd to use heuristics. They wanted to find out what you could do to stand alone heuristics."

"Heuristics are ad hoc. They tend [correct word?], you fix up the heuristics for limit theorems. Now when you go to algebra you need some new heuristics. And when you go to functional analysis and you need some new ones. When are you going to stop? This is what we want as a general purpose prover here. It will prove anything. You're in a dilemma. I mean if you get a general purpose prover oftentimes they're too weak."

"You get a very special purpose prover that uses heuristics, then they stop at the boundary where they can't work anymore."

"I don't think it's too hard in any particular area, although I think people are a little surprised how easy it was in limit theorems. I don't think the average person would do it."

"We Africans should look critically at ourselves first and foremost before we can even start to think about blaming others for our problems."

"We Africans will continue to struggle and lag behind the rest of the world in using science for development if we do not create good local R&D infrastructure and supportive environments."

"Who are using their power and influence to make the world a better place."

"We need to demonstrate that Africa has more to offer than the mere opportunity for human clinical trials."

"Africa has largely been a recipient of Western research."

"It is time for Africa to also contribute research so that people from other continents can also benefit."

"The challenges we are trying to address in Africa are not just African challenges but human challenges."

"In this way Africa can earn respect."

"Research is not a luxury."

"It provides solutions‚ creates jobs and infrastructure‚ builds capacity as well as expertise‚ attracts foreign direct investment‚ can seed an industry and contributes to reversing the brain drain."

"Not only are Bill and Melinda immense contributors to the recognition I have received through the support of our H3D work from their foundation over many years."

"They are both tremendous inspirational and exemplary role models of leaders who serve others."

"I have no right to tell African billionaires and millionaires how they should use their money."

"I would like them to consider following the example set by Bill and Melinda by investing in scientific research in Africa."

"It’s not how you start‚ but how you end up that matters."

"[In] this paper ... MOND arises from n = 0 modes of a [+1 dimension] Kaluza-Klein theory [while] dark matter ... arises from n = 1 modes, which are the lightest Kaluza-Klein particles"

"the [MOND] μ function ... emerges from ... slicing condition[s] chosen based on practical requirements such as avoiding singularities and removing [degrees of freedom] interdependencies ... Slicing conditions in 3+1-D GR define the set of spacelike hypersurfaces, Σ3(t), with spatial metric γij from one moment in time to the next, where time, t, is a global coordinate parameter. We refer to this condition as spacetime synchronization. The slicing condition enforces ... a standard interval of time at each point in a spatial manifold"

"Ironically, I'm not a big fan of E=mc2, since I immensely prefer the energy-complete, Pythagorean-triangle-compatible form:"

"[math](E)^2=(\overrightarrow{p}c)^2(mc^2)^2[/math] E=mc2 addresses only the very special case of mass at rest, and so is not very useful in any actual physics problem. I also find it deeply amusing that Einstein's original paper in which he announced his mass-equals-energy insight, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?", uses L in place of E, and for some odd reason never actually gives the equation! Instead, Einstein uses a sentence only to describe an equivalent equation with c on the other side:"