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"We need to understand what causes brain tumours to grow, to develop in the first instance, and then what causes them to respond to one treatment or another."

"Our research focus is to investigate the molecular signalling pathways inside the tumour cells that are critical in paediatric low-grade brain tumours."

"It’s remarkable what is going on in the ICT world today. A few days ago “Steve Wozniak” one of the men that pioneered modern computing was around in Nigeria and from his words, from his very mouth he said that “the speed at which ICT is going that even himself he’s marveled."

"So you can imagine somebody who is a guru in computing telling other people that he is marveled at what’s happening today and that we are getting to a stage where it’s possible for computers to begin to write their own programs. So the advantage is good, Nigeria is also catching up."

"If you look at the way it happened from the Government’s point of view they weren’t ready for it, the way it has happened now everyone has no choice, everybody has joined the bandwagon. Today you have Government officials on social media sites, you have captains of industries on social media sites."

"Everybody is tweeting, everybody is doing facebook. Even though we weren’t prepared for it but right now there’s no going back. We have put our hands on the plough and we can’t look back."

"Africans its time to grow up, let’s collectively say no to all the vices that contribute towards making us a laughing-stock to the international community. For how long would this continue?"

"I would altogether talk to thee, while my thinking."

"Animals are not only good to eat but also good to think."

"Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging."

"In those days, it was common for a woman to be addressed as ‘Miss’ even though she had earned a Ph.D. degree."

"Rockefeller, where she worked for seven years, was an “awesome and inspiring” place to be."

"I think it's important to get started as soon as you can. In one sense, I decided I wanted to get a doctorate when I was 5 years old, but I didn't know that I wanted to be a professor until many years later."

"When most people think of a professor they think "teacher," and that is true. However, my work entails the two other "pillars of professorship"--research and service. On any given day, my research involves everything from grant writing, to presenting experimental results at conferences, to guiding students through their own masters and PhD programs."

"I tell my students to hone their communication skills, both oral and written. It's no secret that we engineers and scientists are often guilty of being poor communicators, but being able to communicate, especially to the general public, is essential. I love that show "Big Bang Theory," but we're not all that bad! The other thing needed is imagination. You must be willing to step into the unknown because in STEM you won't be hired to solve problems for which the answers are already known."

"Once my mom told a shop owner I was going to college next year. He laughed and asked if I wanted an "Mrs. degree". Even as a teenager, I was ticked off! There are people who can't fathom women in STEM—especially women of color. Oftentimes as the only African-American and/or female in situations, I STILL run into those subtle doubts or even insults at times. However, I've found that a tough skin, a determined mind, and a prayerful heart can take you through any challenge and to any goal."

"I ruined Christmas for everyone because I couldn’t figure out how a reindeer could fly. I mean, they just aren’t built for flying, anyone could see that. So I had to reject either the truthfulness of adults or the conclusions of my own mind."

"Because of my family and our community, my childhood was unique. I never learned what I couldn’t do — as a child, as a woman, or as a black person."

"I had to do what I thought was the most important thing."

"A lot of people opposed our civil rights efforts. I had to do what I thought was the most important thing. That’s all there was to it."

"Doesn't matter where you are from or what you look like. Doesn't matter if you're poor. A human being can learn and can achieve whatever they set out to do (or come near to it). I've spent my life studying human potential—and stretching my own.Don't give up. No matter how bad or scary it gets. Not even when you ask yourself "What am I doing here?""

"I’m type O-positive. What type are you?"

"thought that it had to be a tall, pink man that interacted with the astronauts, and that nobody was going to listen to a little brown woman."

"(Richmond, Virginia was) a proper field for real missionary work, and one that would present ample opportunities to become acquainted with the diseases of women and children. During my stay there nearly every hour was improved in that sphere of labor. The last quarter of the year 1866, I was enabled ... to have access each day to a very large number of the indigent, and others of different classes, in a population of over 30,000 colored."

"It may be well to state here that, having been reared by a kind aunt in Pennsylvania, whose usefulness with the sick was continually sought, I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others. Later in life I devoted my time, when best I could, to nursing as a business, serving under different doctors for a period of eight years (from 1852 to 1860); most of the time at my adopted home in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. From these doctors I received letters commending me to the faculty of the New England Female Medical College, whence, four years afterward, I received the degree of doctress of medicine."

"I prayed for it, and I certainly wanted it. Like any goal, you give it your all, even though there’s never a guarantee of the outcome."

"Engineering wasn’t an obvious path for me at first; it was something I discovered along the way."

"My family, especially my father, played a huge role in building my confidence."

"If you spend hours and hours of your life acquiring money and then die without spending all of that money, then you’ve needlessly wasted too many precious hours of your life. There is just no way to get those hours back. If you die with $1 million left, that’s $1 million of experiences you didn’t have. And if you die with $50,000 left, well, that’s $50,000 of experiences you didn’t have. No way is that optimal."

"When we’re infants, we get very little enjoyment out of money. Babies are expensive to take care of, true, but it’s not like they get a lot of enjoyment from spending money. When you’re a baby, there’s no greater happiness than Mom and the crib. In a way, the amount of utility that babies get from money is very similar to what the elderly get. Money is nearly worthless at the very beginning and the very end of life."

"“If we do it right, it will create more jobs and more revenue for the government and we will enable other agencies as well."

"Once you’ve finally determined your net worth peak, you must start spending down, or decumulating. This means you will be spending more in your real golden years, when you are in reasonably good shape in both health and wealth—between 45 and 60—than people usually do, because most people who save money for the future save for too late in life."

"But I still ask you: Why wait until your health and life energy have begun to wane? Rather than just focusing on saving up for a big pot full of money that you will most likely not be able to spend in your lifetime, live your life to the fullest now: Chase memorable life experiences, give money to your kids when they can best use it, donate money to charity while you’re still alive. That’s the way to live life."

"Remember: In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories."

"Once I make $15 million, if I’m still trading, punch me in the face."

"John understood perfectly well that at a certain point it makes a lot more sense to spend money doing the things you love than to simply earn more money—but his numerical target kept shifting. He didn’t quit when he’d amassed $15 million. He was trading so well that the $15 million became $25 million, which eventually became $100 million, and so on. When you’re on a winning streak that big, it’s hard to stop, even when your rational mind tells you that you should."

"I think that as women, we need a movement. You can’t do it by bureaucracy. Though we have the constitution, which we have all worked for and has set the trend towards equality, we need to look and ask, “what’s holding us up?"

"The old model of saying the man is the breadwinner and the woman is the homemaker is gone. We really have to create a new model for women to move out. The model should also sensitise a husband to see that, if she goes out, the family is still protected."

"The power of numbers, the intellectual capacity of women, and the lobbying capacity that women possess will help them enter those spaces and get what they want. We cannot relax before we reach our destination. We must rise again and march forward."

"We don’t want to be equal with men in an oppressive environment. Numbers do not tell it all. MPs can be 50:50 in parliament (fifty per cent women and fifty per cent men). This balance means nothing if people are going to bed hungry. That is not the environment that we want. We need an environment of social transformation, so I said we need to change the institutions. We need to change legislation to have both men and women are living like human beings."

"Since launch, we got an endorsement of our application by the exam body, JAMB [organizers of UTME]. It was an exciting one for us. We have built a network of tutors who provide explanatory and coaching feature on the platform."

"For us, it was one of the best decisions we made considering the age demographics of our audience, who are either accessing via web or Android"

"At a time, users revolted against the payment structure; they insisted they weren’t going to the bank, since most our subscription was small compared to the cost of getting to the bank."

"Since then, we have seen the need for a seamless integration of payment options into the model. Many of our users also don’t own bank accounts and therefore can’t pay through cards/online."

"Getting the right set of people to work with to produce quality content is a big task that comes with its cost."

"Yes I’m a core programmer; one of the best during my set in school. I won 2013 national best developer for computer science students back in school."

"Generally, we all look very smart in the morning, ready to hit some milestones. Sometimes things get into an overdrive when something breaks down; an API for instance."

"Excellence in simple terms is being outstanding at what you do."

"Time is a fixed commodity dispersed evenly, the value of time is in the activities we invest in daily and every action has a reward and consequence."

"It was what I wanted to do and I didn’t see why I couldn’t do it."