All Quotes

"Break with the idea of sticking to old ways. As reform is a process of destroying the old and establishing the new, it is bound to encounter obstructions from outdated conventional ideas and force of habit. It usually happens in the history of war that a triumphant army always fondly regards its past successful experience to the hindrance of its progress, thus following the beaten track in the face of development in warfare."

"Break through the idea of settling things once and for all. The reform of our army cannot be accomplished in one or two attempts. This is because we need a process for the understanding of objective things and it is impossible to achieve the unity of subjective ideas with objective reality in a single stroke. Moreover, objective things are constantly developing and changing, therefore, after acquiring understanding of the past process of objective things, we should continue to acquire understanding of the new developments of objective things. Due to the constant development of military science and technology and the emergence of new characteristics in modern wars, we should deepen our understanding and carry out reform accordingly. Otherwise, we may lag behind. It is thus obvious that we should regard reform as a protracted task."

"Now we are carrying out the new struggle of building a modernized army with special Chinese characteristics. Many of our veteran comrades have made their contributions to the life-and-death struggles."

"Despite his growing importance as Deng's right-hand man, however, he failed to make much of an impression on ordinary Chinese. Many, particularly intellectuals mocked his foppish dress, his jovial, often coarse manner, and reputation as an ageing playboy. For many he was a buffoon, a powerful one but hardly a man of weight. Then, in June 1989, the joking stopped. Overnight, Yang Shangkun became perhaps the most hated man in China. He had performed the ultimate act of loyalty - when Deng said open fire he obeyed."

"The life of Yang Shangkun "was glorious and militant" and he made "historic and indelible contributions to the Chinese people's cause of liberation and the cause of socialist revolution and construction."

"The clear message was that we move from reports to action for a just community of women and men at a personal, congregational, denominational, and global level."

"Yanmo Omorogbe(born November 2,1994) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and finance professional."

"" It's always shocking to me just how few female founders there are across the board. If you check the Africa stats, there's less, there's maybe five, at least in Nigeria, female founders who've raised a Series A. And we're not even talking about sole female founders, just literally companies with a female co-founder." Yanmo speaking on gender inequality in the African TECH space"

"I wouldn't advise anyone to start a tech company unless it was your dream."

"What I do tell women in general is that whatever dream you have, whatever goal you have there is room to scale it."

"" We need more women across, not necessarily being founders, being product managers and being customer experience. We need just more women across the entire value chain so that there's no more news that like you're a woman founder. There's no term like male founder. "Yanmo on the need for more involvement from women in the African TECH industry"

"My general philosophy about life is: what’s the worst that could happen? If I reflect on this, and I am okay with the worst‑case scenario, then why not?"

"“As a society, we need to make it easier for women to become founders, to enter tech, to start learning to code, or know what other opportunities are available. Spaces need to be safer for women — women are over mentored and underfunded. They don’t need another seminar; give them a check."

"We seek to ignite and accompany individuals who are on a journey to becoming their greatest selves - we do this through inspiration."

"" In conclusion, the industry needs some of us who would find fulfilment in public health advocacy, to dig deep and specialise. I can assure you that this is a career path worth exploring." Ifeoluwa on the public health advocacy"

"" The Healthcare Marketing in Nigeria is not as evolved as the foreign counterpart - well, our healthcare system is not encouraging to be fair, however, as the sector rapidly grows, we need experienced marketing professional who understands the industry and can uncover insights to effective communication." Ifeoluwa on the challenges of Healthcare marketing in Nigeria"

"“Our work is important, but not more than our health, your career success does not have to come at the expense of your well-being.”"

"" One of the things I learnt about myself during my internship was I have empathy for people going through health issues; and one of the things I felt was helplessness. I wanted to be on the other side of making decisions that would make their lives better, as opposed to being the clinical person giving drugs." Ifeoluwa speaking in an interview"

"Nothing in life excellent began with taking it easy, mastery and impact require focus, effort, and doing more than the minimum."

"We are the ones building the solutions we need Africa needs you to be bold, innovative, audacious, and turn empathy into action"

"Engaged research is not merely about conducting studies; it's about creating meaningful partnerships that translate scientific innovation into tangible benefits for communities."

"It could be that in some applications we don’t necessarily need the kind of scale we find in ChatGPT."

"A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back."

"By launching iMed Tech, I wanted to confirm a theory that women have the power and potential to run companies in the medical technology sector. And not just ordinary companies, but companies that will become multinationals.""

"“I grew up on a continent that faces significant challenges, such as lack of access to quality healthcare and education; no food security; water and energy crisis and crippling poverty for so many people. I want to be one of those young people who has the passion to solve our problems.”"

"“My calling in life is to make Africa prosper. I can’t do it on my own – I need a hand to hold on to.”"

"You always have to try and prove the narrative wrong that women, and black women cannot start a successful company.” about navigating bias in the medtech sector"

"“I believe that we have made failure seem like the worst experience, be patient with the journey of entrepreneurship; it takes time to achieve your set goals.” reflecting on resilience and learning from setbacks"

"It is easier to forgive a woman for her ugliness than for her intelligence."

"Women are strong with occasional moments of weakness, which men can't stand. Men are weak with occasional moments of arrogance."

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"I grew up as a science and math nerd."

"I discovered a love of computing in high school, when personal computing was still fairly new the early 80s."

"The idea that computers could be programmed to lead to intelligence, as in the robots in the science fiction I enjoyed."

"I fell in love with the field of artificial intelligence as an undergraduate in applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon."

"I aimed at a research career and did my doctorate researching machine learning for mobile robots under the late brilliant Drew McDermott at Yale."

"I switched research directions towards natural language processing, using computers to understand human language."

"I discovered a love of integrating the precise and mathematical in computing with the personal and meaningful in language."

"The breadth of the field, combining math, computing, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, sociology, and more, is what has kept me in it for decades."

"I saw the growing interest in data science as a distinct field, and proposed to the Illinois Tech university leadership."

"I recruited collaborators, led the development of a curriculum, and shepherded the proposal through a gauntlet of curriculum committees."

"I discovered a love for designing and implementing processes the help people learn and perform, and for building effective teams to address complex problems."

"Early in my work on using computers to analyze authorship figuring out who wrote a document based on the wording and grammar."

"My colleagues and I looked at the classic case of Shakespeare we looked at a play for which scholars disputed whether Shakespeare or his contemporary Christopher Marlowe wrote or if they each wrote different parts of it."

"To our great surprise and excitement, our results showed unequivocally that Marlowe had written the entire play."

"We want to produce well rounded data scientists."

"We are talking to people in industry who want to do adjunct teaching for some courses that are down to earth."

"Students coming in for a data scientist course are not looking for a real narrow technical focus but a broader in interdisciplinary approach."

"They may still not understand it involves learning to talk with people who are not technical."

"I hope they will learn how important these skills can be."