All Quotes

"The standard of proof when writing about the president of the United States... needs to be higher... Unger... [cites] dozens of books and journalistic accounts... He's weak, however, on the primary sources needed to sway a skeptical reader, much less a jury. ...[T]here is a volcano's worth of smoke in House of Trump, House of Putin, which ...has obscured the fire."

"[T]he Republican Party nominated a candidate whose greed, lack of morals and relationship with criminal elements should have disqualified him for the lowest-level-clearance, much less the highest office... Unger's books have shown... the evidence was there... American Kompromat... reminds us that there is still much left to learn."

"[A]lmost every time I followed a footnote to check the source... I found... an old newspaper or magazine story rather than... [his] interviews or... sleuthing. ...The ...extent of Russian involvement in Trump’s rise ...may only become known when the Russian intelligence services open up their archives ...This is a ...competent collation of what we already know."

"There is a long term initiative that we are currently working on, which aims to bridge the gap between city and rural area: the fiber fund. It is a $2 billion fund to expand our current backbone from 35,000 kilometers to 125,000 kilometers. In other words, we are investing in 90,000 kilometers of fiber optic network across the country."

"However, that is a long term initiative and it is not going to connect those people in the next year or two. We expect that such a project will probably take about three to five years to be completed."

"What we are doing in the meantime, however, is investing in what we have called the Broadband Alliance. The Broadband alliance is focused on enhancing the existing infrastructure that we have in the country, which is about 35,000 kilometers of optic fiber network. We have a government-owned satellite — the only one in the West African region — which allows us to connect difficult-to-reach locations. One of the projects we started in the first three months of our appointment was the deployment of connectivity to all local government secretariats across Nigeria — all 774 of them"

"We found the case of the Chinese farmers extremely inspiring because when people talk about connectivity, they talk about connecting people but it is somehow abstract or difficult to actually picture cases of how this investment in connectivity leads to important economic opportunities for individuals. In China, the government is ensuring that farmers in rural areas have access to quality connectivity solutions."

"We are still limited to connectivity between people, connecting people to people."

"We tend to forget that connectivity is also about connecting things to things, and people to things, and that is what is responsible for the prosperity that we are beginning to see in a number of sectors globally."

"When you look at the use of connected technologies in mining, it is saving lives: making mines a lot more precise in their daily operations, and helping miners to use resources more sustainably."

"If you look at what connectivity is doing in security, it allows to govern previously ungoverned spaces, it is even useful to manage forestry or farms."

"All these opportunities are limited for developing countries if we only focus on connecting people to people."

"I think we are forgetting opportunities that exist as well and are very important. *The next conversation that we need to be having is about the link between connectivity and prosperity in developing countries."

"Focusing on connecting people to others is not sufficient."

"Africa cannot remain as consumers, we need to grow into producers of solutions, “With the design lab, we are looking to deepen our work, to allow us support the smart application of technology especially for prosperity across multiple countries."

"Beyond just a tour, we want to build strong presence in the Bay Area."

"Our size will become a major part of us being able to invest in startups, and the longer we stay invested the more we will start to see significant returns and exits."

"Technology is becoming a major part of nearly all that we do as humans. We are beginning to see how it is facilitating access to services and increasing productivity: many businesses are now completely relying on it."

"Having an example of farmers being able to livestream their products and thus selling directly to consumers is very inspiring."

"We need to do a good job at investing in our infrastructure, to train more people to have a strong workforce and to have a decent set of policies for the digital economy. Otherwise, there is going to be a limit to how much gains we can get out of all the investments that we have made."

"Within the community, we want people to be able to work together and generate new knowledge — whether on the application of AI in critical sectors or for critical services in Nigeria."

"Most of the time, civil society organizations tend to narrowly focus on policing the government. However, the digital economy is so robust that the people we need to police are beyond the government — as most of the time the government does not have the capability to use technology."

"A lot of the young people are digital natives and of course you still find a lot of vulnerable young people, but the slightly older folks are the ones who are the most vulnerable."

"To sum it up: in the North, people are scared of losing their jobs because of AI. In our case, we are creating more jobs with it."

"When people have a clearer understanding of artificial intelligence, they can better protect themselves instead of relying on laws to do so alone — laws must be there to support it, but individuals must also be well educated about this phenomenon."

"For me, the journey was Film, then Tech and Venture Capital, then back to Film."

"I went to school at Savannah College of Art and Design in 1999 to study film production. Then when I got out of college one of my first jobs was working on Tyler Perry’s first movie “Diary of Mad Black Woman.” I ended up working at his company for a few years. Then in 2008 I left the film industry to pursue tech, founding successful companies like Audigent"

"There are similarities though. Audigent at its core is a programmatic advertising company. They use innovative tech to improve the way online ads reach people, resulting in improved performance and engagement. Originally, Audigent was doing this in partnership with the three major record labels (Warner, Sony and Universal), which created a new revenue source for the music business. Revenue derived 100% from data as opposed to music, streaming, or touring."

"Building tech companies is about identifying problems, engineering solutions, and executing strategies that lead to different, scalable outcomes. What do I mean by scalable? Meaning the solution must be repeatable for the greatest number of customers without having to change small details."

"With FilmHedge I looked at Film and TV finance and asked myself a question: “If thousands of movies and TV shows are funded every year, why is the process of raising and closing money always so different for each of them?” That’s horribly inefficient. FilmHedge streamlines the process to make it more efficient."

"Impact matters more than momentary attention."

"In the current economy, if you’re opportuned to even get a gig from a political party, you’re lucky. So, respect to the party."

"There is time for everything. But the fact that you are progressing is what is important."

"It’s not about what you have but how you carry it."

"It’s growth and distance. It happens to everybody."

"What people don’t like is television that is locked in linear time. We want to try and preserve the best bits of television, and discard bits people don’t care for."

"That’s what the Venice Project is doing. What we have done is created a streaming P2P platform for television. This is a platform, which is good for content owners, for advertisers and of course the viewers."

"Kazaa and Skype were based on a piece of technology called the “Global Index.” Skype basically built a communication layer on top of that. That technology has evolved since then, and the Venice Project, is built on that global index and we have developed a P2P video streaming layer on top of that core technology"

"We are building an ad-based system, and it is close to the television model. We will do revenue share with the content providers. With our system, people can be targeted with the right kind of ads. We are respecting the copyrights. We will reveal more details about the technology soon"

"Niklas and I are entreprenuers at heart, and eBay understands that. I am still at Skype and I think that is where I spend most of my time. On The Venice Project we have tried to build a management team that will take care of things."

"All hell broke loose at the station when our weather guy robbed the bank, and they needed someone who was there to fill in for the day,"

"I already knew from my calculations that there was going to be a heat wave. When the heat wave hit the next day, the job was mine."

"Too many young blacks believe that the field of meteorology is not open to them; still others are not even aware that the field exists, Society, too, has a moral obligation to put aside the past myths about black Americans not only in the meteorological field but in all of the technical fields."

"Too often girls and minorities get discouraged early in high school from pursuing a career in the atmospheric sciences"

"Science fairs “serve as a natural breeding ground for budding scientists” and “as a continual source of female and minority science-minded students."

"I can admit now, in retrospect, that when you’re a Black female and you’re the only one in a particular situation, when something happens, you don’t know whether to view it through a lens of racism or not. You can’t tell because there aren’t other people who look like you. You don’t know if what is happening to you is because of your race or not."

"My mother was executive director of the Los Angeles Girl Scout Council. She was a leader, she knew how to interact with people, and she believed deeply in higher education. She would wake me up every morning and say, ‘You can be anything you want to be.’ If you grow up with that kind of confidence, it has a profound influence on the rest of your life."

"I have heard other women and people of color say that we feel like we have to work harder to prove that we know what we’re talking about. I got to where I am because I worked harder, I dug deeper, and I learned how to bring more people into the conversation and to see my point of view."

"I do hope they recognize that I care deeply about Trinity and trying to make it a stronger institution, that fundamentally I want to leave the place better than it was when I came. It isn’t about me; it is about a better Trinity and my hopes for higher education being better and stronger for the country."

"We started to fight, they heavily beat me, broke my nose, and tore my jacket."