All Quotes

"Take that!"

"Get me a pick me up."

"Get Awaaaaay!!!"

"Cosmo: Wheeheehee!"

"Cosmo: LOOK OUT!"

"Wanda: Stay back!"

"Stay away!"

"Mmmm-hmmmm...."

"No escape!"

"Pearl Krabs: Have you changed your hero?"

"Carl Wheezer: How may I help you?"

"It all started with watching the movie “The Intern“, which sort of mirrored life at Google, i got fascinated by it and decided to take my love for gadgets a step further, I became an active member of the Google student club while in my 2nd year, attending designs and code classes / events."

"Interacting with developers who were levels ahead of me and keeping up with latest technologies only pushed me to want to know more. It’s been that way since then as i’m still learning and growing, everyday."

"I believe can achieve whatever it is I set my mind to and that mantra has done a great deal in most of what i do today."

"I’m known as the go-getter, the one who’s always trying out new things, the one who pushes a little harder."

"I never let anything/situation derail me,⅚ if I can work hard and come this far in Software development without a B.Sc degree in Computer science, then I or anyone else can achieve whatever it is they set their mind to"

"Set goals, work hard towards them, Achieve them."

"Being a woman in tech doesn’t just stop at bearing the title, the rest of the world is expectant to see what you can do, how far you can go, how resilient you can be, how smart your brains are and at every given opportunity, do not derail in letting them know your worth!"

"You’re Smart, You’re Beautiful, You’re Intelligent! You’re a definition of Beauty and Brains."

"The women in tech community in Nigeria and Africa still has a very long way to go, there’s so many potentials in girls, ladies and women here, once we acknowledge that we have to start from the grass-root up, it gets a lot easier having them embrace the ideology of W.I.T. I personally believe with the right support, initiatives and personnel, larger input can be gotten from the ladies."

"“I know what communities have done for me personally. Communities have had a huge impact on my career growth.” — On why she founded She Code Africa."

"Through a coupling of measurements and modelling, we aim to determine the inter-related controls on oxygen and productivity along the west African margin, from the tip of South Africa to the equator, and to identify implications for natural resources. This margin hosts several socio-economically important ecosystems characterised by different oxygen conditions and levels of productivity. We seek to identify the organising principles underlying the margin’s oxygen dynamics to develop predictive capacity for the region – with regard to oxygen and productivity, and to the biogeochemical and ecosystem-level implications of changes in these parameters."

"“I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.”"

"“If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.”"

"“Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.” — Caterina Sforza"

"“I do have ambition — I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine — but it’s not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.”"

"“My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.”"

"“Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.”"

"I tend to read a lot of life stories of artists or creative people who I find inspiring. With this, I was reading about Alasdair Gray and Francis Bacon and . I tried to find ways to appropriate elements of their lives and create a viable character of my own. I try to build a character out of found materials and my own personal reflections, to mould them into something that’s believable and authentic — as authentic as fiction can be, anyway."

"I do a lot of thinking about the arc of the story before I begin—who the s are at the beginning, who they will become by the end—but I never have a rigid plan. Instead, I do the plot-making equivalent of looking up the journey on the map before I set off, noting where all the important junctions and turn-offs are, then putting the map in the glovebox; and if I happen to encounter a more direct or scenic route along the way, or if any landmarks I thought I would stop and see get bypassed, then I don’t worry too much about it—as long as the journey is interesting and I reach my intended destination. Then I go back and delete all the tiresome road travel metaphors I’ve put in."

"I’ve always been a relentlessly creative person. Creativity has saved me from mental trauma. I’ve always been amazed at how a piece of music, a feat of architecture or a picture could move me. I have looked into what the origins of creativity might be, whether there’s a scientific explanation for it, or whether it’s something less knowable. And since there’s no definitive answer to it, it’s grown more compelling. I also find it difficult to write about characters who don’t have an instinct to create something. I always want to write about people who are looking to add more to the world than they’re taking from it."

"Lord, it's a hard life, son, I know that it is,"

"You ask someone what they do and they say they’re a politician. Is that a job? It’s a call to service. But for these guys, that’s where they earn a living. People steal with impunity and there’s no integrity among our leaders."

"I think if you’re part of a problem, you can’t be part of the solution."

"Basically, nothing prepares you for anything. But education is very important. When you are educated, it means you are trainable."

"The industry has also made me to understand that life itself is transient, and not all that glitters is gold."

"I wanted to go to a Black college to allow the students to have the opportunity to get the kind of education that I had gotten; because I felt coming from where I came from that it was almost impossible for me to get the kind of training I had gotten. (...) I squeezed through the wire mesh fence."

"You must love chemistry; you must be committed; and you must prove yourself over and over."

"Since I started working in high energy physics it certainly hasn't been lonely and there haven't been a lack of female role models."

"Black women are a different story. But there were minority women working at the Fermilab experiments whom I was very happy to see. And at the ATLAS experiment there are a noticeable fraction of African descent. So I think things are improving because, historically, all of the icons in our field have been white men."

"I didn’t know what my life would look like as a black postdoc or faculty member."

"I looked to the women such as my mother who had had academic careers, and tried to think about how I could shape my life to look something like that, and I realized that it could be something I could make work."

"Some trap lyrics are unspeakable, unlistenable, but we have to try to understand why these young people are saying these things."

"It contains a very important line: 'you die a little in order to live.'"

"It’s hard to start from yourself and say: ‘Well, this is who I am, and this is my path’... Talent alone is not enough. You need character, reliability, humility, and courage."

"Talent? It’s not enough for fame."

"I’d like to see the university take the wonderful things that are already happening and make them better. I want us to have that culture of: Yes, we did a good job, but if we work on it — if we try something a little different, if we bring in some other people — we can add another dimension to what we’ve already achieved."

"First, honored, and then, “Oh my God.” (laughs) Obviously I’ve been on the Board of Trustees for a while, and we have been addressing the issues that you would expect in an enterprise of this size: strategically where we are going, what do we need to achieve and what’s important in terms of the investments we need to be making going forward. So, I thought to myself, “If there’s something I can do to help, I’m glad to do it."

"In the workplace I was quick to understand that some people might be offended that I was female, that I was African-American, or that I was young, but I had to let that be their problem. The best thing I could do was just focus on doing a good job, and let my work speak for me. If someone said something offensive to me, I just let it be. I refused to pick up the stone and put it in my knapsack."

"My aim is to democratize technology."