All Quotes

"It’s hard to call out one specific person or pivotal moment."

"Every position, interaction and experience have shaped the leader I am today."

"Anyone aspiring to climb the ranks of leadership in finance, or any industry, should remember that their voice matters."

"It’s not only about having a seat at the table."

"You need to ask yourself what are your unique strengths that you are bringing to the table and lean into that."

"Giving yourself permission to learn is incredibly important,”"

"There’s actually a demographic that has embraced learning from the start: millennials. Many millennial workers value professional development and learning opportunities, and they may grow frustrated with an employer if they don’t feel they are receiving adequate development opportunities"

"What is wrong with demanding that learning is a priority within your career"

"So if you’re looking to create a better work environment — and to attract the best people — be sure that your organization is one where “lifelong learning is celebrated and encouraged"

"Our goal is to build relationships with companies so we can help meet their needs and solve their problems in ways that benefit our students, too"

"That may be talent development, industry research, or even developing innovative curriculum to meet emerging workforce needs"

"Apart from enjoying and having an aptitude for math and science at school, I decided to pursue a career in physics because there are very few female scientists in South Africa. Having a degree in physics opens the door to a variety of careers across a variety of sectors. And since only a few women pursue these careers it means more opportunities for those who do."

"My responsibilities involve implementing structured light to increase the bandwidth of optical communications systems. I design and construct optical experiments as well as develop code to automate measurement processes and analyze data."

"I also assist on the business process and program development of our prototyping facility which develops photonics prototypes well-aligned to market needs."

"In terms of what I want to do, Africa, Africa, Africa. We are a continent that’s reliant on rain for our crops: we are already a poor continent so we cannot put in a lot of irrigation."

"It is also the continent where there is the greatest predicted food shortage compared to the population growth. The United Nations has projected the African population to double to 2.4 billion by 2050, while global warming is likely to worsen droughts and reduce crop yields. But apart from all of that, it is my passion to do this for Africa."

"No, definitely not. It can be a solution for only a small amount of crops that are going to help with food security. People are thinking about aeroponics, hydroponics, eating insects, eating all sorts of other foods. Resurrection crops is one solution of many – but I think it is a very important one."

"Without trying to be rude, they are very ignorant about the subject. Genetic modification of plants is probably the safest kind of GM, yet it is the most vilified one."

"The crops that we are eating [today] are highly genetically modified. Through conventional breeding, thousands of gene changes happened without us knowing that we were doing GM all along."

"I want to cater to the subsistence farmer, the person who wants to make enough food to live"

"Farmers are becoming more and more dispirited, and droughts are killing them."

"We should make agriculture part of the solution to our issues… the climate change problem is so huge everything should be on the table"

"When I was a child, I remember my mother sometimes exclaiming that I was too inquisitive. They always complained about my inquisitiveness. I always wanted to ask questions"

"The difference in our heights was getting closer. So I, you know, as a child, I didn't realize I was getting taller. So I asked my grandmom, why are you getting shorter? Because to me, I could see that she seemed to be getting shorter. And then she simply told me that when people get older, they get shorter. She (grandmother) was more patient with me”"

"But my mother, because she was working in the bank, and then she had more demand on her time, was quite impatient with my incessant questions"

"When I looked at statistics, from what they were saying, it was more like everywhere you go, you could do statistics"

"When I asked myself, 'what do you really want to do', I enjoyed teaching Sunday school classes, I always loved research, I loved being in the library, I loved finding out, and I told myself, look, if this is what you want to do, if you have just one chance again in life to get it right, what would you do? So I told myself, I want to do research and I want to be in academia"

"During my research, I found out that poverty seemed to have the face of a woman"

"I teach undergrad and grad mathematics courses, I do scientific research, I supervise grad students’ research, and I have some administrative duties in my department and university and within the larger scientific community. I am an applied mathematician, so my research involves using mathematical and computational methods to solve problems in science."

"My main interest is in geophysical fluid dynamics, which is the study of the movement of air and water in the atmosphere and oceans. I am particularly interested in understanding how waves in the atmosphere interact and affect the general circulation of the atmosphere and influence weather and climate."

"I decided to make a career teaching mathematics when I was about 4 years old. It is the only career I ever considered. As a teacher who also grew up in a family of teachers, my mother noticed and encouraged my interest in mathematics from a very early age."

"When I am not working, I hang out with my son. We enjoy travelling, especially going to the beach, and going to music concerts and festivals. Our favourite trips have been to Barbados and to Prince Edward Island."

"I was born in Barbados. My father was from Barbados and was a math professor with a PhD in the area of math called group theory. My mother was a teacher from Ghana. My father studied in the UK and first worked in Ghana, where he met my mother, then eventually moved back to the Caribbean where I was born and grew up. I also lived in Ghana and in the UK before moving to Canada."

"I grew up in 1960’s in Winston Salem, NC. in a low-income, single parent household. At the time, the schools in Winston-Salem were segregated but, due primarily to the dedication of my teachers and my own motivation"

"I received a very strong public school education. For as long as I can remember, even before I started school, I had a love for mathematics. I think there was something about both the logic of math and the fact that in math there was a “right answer” that appealed to me (clearly before I knew about stochastic mathematics)."

"For a long time, I wanted to be a math teacher, but in high school I started to think about working in jobs where I could “apply” mathematics (though I only had a vague idea of what that meant)."

"In 1980 I joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ. Eventually I had a 25- year career at Bell Laboratories and, after the breakup of the Bell System, AT&T Laboratories."

"During my time at AT&T I learned the importance of mentoring. I have mentored hundreds of people over my career, first at AT&T and, more recently, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), where I continued my career after leaving AT&T. I am very proud of the impact I have had on the careers of so many people."

"Life is mainly grief and labour. Two things get you through. Chortling when it hits your neighbour, Whingeing when it's you."

"Religion, as far as I could see, was chiefly concerned with “getting into Heaven.” A stockpile of prayers and could ensure my entry ticket into paradise, but I also resorted to the gaining of s, the wearing of , and the practice of attending on the first Friday of every month. If you managed five consecutive first Fridays, you were promised that you would not die without receiving the last rites and having the chance to confess all to a priest. This type of piety seems no more religious than paying into a retirement annuity to secure a comfortable retirement in the hereafter. It is obsessed with self. Religion is supposed to be about the loss of the ego, not about its eternal survival in optimum conditions. It can also feed an attitude of exclusivity. I sometimes think that if some arrived in Heaven and found everybody there, they would be furious: Heaven wouldn’t be Heaven if the elect are deprived of the Schadenfreude of peering over the celestial parapets to watch the excluded unfortunates roasting below."

"People who identify strongly with their s frequently experience pleasure when they observe threatening members’ misfortunes: a phenomenon termed intergroup Schadenfreude. Though people are generally averse to harming others, they may learn to overcome this aversion via the consistent pairing of subjective pleasure with out-group pain, thereby lowering the barrier to participating in collective violence. In studies, intergroup Schadenfreude is associated with engagement of (VS), a brain region involved in . In these experiments, VS activity predicts increased harm and decreased help toward competitive out-group members. Experiencing this pleasure-pain association in intergroup contexts is particularly pernicious because it can generalize to people who are merely affiliated with a threatening out-group, but have done nothing to provoke harm."

"The have a saying: “The misfortune of others tastes like honey.” The speak of joie maligne, a diabolical delight in other people’s suffering. ... There has never really been a word for these grubby delights in English. In the 1500s, someone attempted to introduce “epicaricacy” from the , but it didn’t catch on. There could only be one conclusion: as a in the asserted in 1926, “There is no English word for schadenfreude because there is no such feeling here.” He was wrong, of course. I’m British, and enjoying other people’s mishaps and misery feels as much part of my culture as s and talking about the weather."

"Someone actually got what went on and how I felt"

"As the first African American female graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering in 1961, I did not have a role model,” she writes in part. “I understand that requests are not few, and her contacts must be very limited. If there is a way that a meeting can be arranged or a sighting, I am very interested. … Knowing of her has been an inspiration to me."

"I could do a split, but another African American girl could do a flip,” she remembers. “There could only be one African American cheerleader, and I couldn’t do a flip, so that was that."

"Girls always come up here, but they never finish, and you won’t finish either.” Then he glanced at her hands and added: “Besides, you’re never going to be able to draw with those fingernails.”"

"Some of it may have been racial prejudice,” she says, “but they didn’t even have to get to racial because being a girl in engineering, being female, was enough"

"There’s always been magic in complex math calculations,” she says. “I used to think about problems all day long. Sometimes I solved the problems in my sleep. But then I would wake up and couldn’t think of what I did. So I trained myself to write down the solution immediately"

"Ultimately,” he adds, “if we are to maximize human potential, having a safe, welcoming environment is absolutely vital for knowledge generation and for learning. I’m certainly committed to making sure that the Swanson School and the University of Pittsburgh are the best places for individuals to come and do their best work"

"I didn't know they lay of the land," quips Bozeman. They wanted her to go back to school to finish her Ph.D. She just looked at them thinking, I have a husband and two small children, how am I going to go back to Vanderbilt four hours away?"