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"Skills are important, but I think they are not the most important," Karusisi said, before adding that "we are not short of studies from very prestigious houses showing the importance and all the social, economic returns of investing into gender equality. All of that is there. It's out there on the internet and everyone can have access to that information.(Ubumenyi ni ingenzi, ariko sintekereza ko ari cyo kintu cy’ingenzi kurusha ibindi," Karusisi yavuze, yongeraho ati: "Nta kibazo dufite cy’uko nta bushakashatsi buhari; dufite ubushakashatsi bwinshi bwakozwe n’inzu zikomeye bugaragaza akamaro ko gushora mu buringanire bw’abagore n’abagabo, n’inyungu zabyo mu muryango ndetse no mu bukungu. Ibyo byose birahari, biri ku rubuga rw’iyakure kandi buri wese ashobora kubibona.)"

"Get out of your comfort, try to grow in whatever you are doing so you can have more impact for yourself and also for your communities.(Sohoka mu buzima bworoshye usanzwe umenyereye, gerageza gukura no gutera imbere mu byo ukora kugira ngo ugire uruhare runini ku buzima bwawe no ku iterambere ry’aho utuye.)"

"I believe we have a very strong government. I believe that we have historic opportunity as Rwandans. A lot of great things are happening here;showing that it’s possible to transform Africa into a better place for Africans.(Nizeye ko dufite ubuyobozi bukomeye cyane. Nizeye ko dufite amahirwe y’ amateka nk’Abanyarwanda. Hari ibintu byinshi byiza biri kubera hano bigaragaza ko bishoboka guhindura Afurika ahantu heza kurusha ho ku Banyafurika.)"

"Our gesture today intends to remind you that we are there, and we really care because we are concerned with your situation after the Genocide.(Igikorwa twakoze uyu munsi kigamije kubibutsa ko turi kumwe namwe, kandi tubitayeho kuko dufite impuhwe n’uruhare mu gukemura bibazo mwahuye nabyo nyuma ya Jenoside.)"

"It has been a journey marked by the pursuit of gender equality, and today marks just one of the many milestones along this path. Moving forward, as we renovate our branches, we are committed to ensuring that every branch includes a mother’s room."

"It is what we have been able to do in Rwanda; implement, execute and put the women at the centre of everything we do. Skills are also important, it is not only about leadership."

"We want to understand the issues our clients are facing. This will help us to plan better to extend our financial services to more Rwandans but through the use of technology as our main focus of better service delivery in the coming year.(Turashaka kumenya ibibazo abakiliya bacu bahura na byo. Ibi bizadufasha gutegura neza uburyo bwo kugeza serivisi z'imari ku Banyarwanda benshi, dukoresheje ikoranabuhanga nk'inkingi y'ingenzi mu gutanga serivisi zinoze mu mwaka utaha.)"

"When a person is involved in many things, in a vacuum, and neglects responsibility in things that are not important, it is a waste of time. Boys and girls who are confident, [based on] the confidence that the country has placed in them, and have the decency to follow what they want, I think they achieve a lot.(Iyo umuntu agiye mu bintu byinshi, mu kavuyo, agateshuka ku nshingano mu bintu bidafite akamaro, ni ukwipfusha ubusa. Abahungu, abakobwa bigiriye icyizere, [bashingiye] ku cyizere igihugu cyabashyizemo, bakagira n’ikinyabupfura cyo gukurikira icyo bashaka, nibaza ko bagera kuri byinshi)"

"Bank of Kigali elevates workplace inclusivity with launch of ‘Mother’s Room’"

"We will be reporting the loans given by the bank and their results on livelihoods, jobs, and exports. As part of our Sustainability Report, we also show how the business we do is promoting better gender balance and equity."

"Bank of Kigali CEO Diane Karusisi took part in a major moment at the UCI Road World Championships 2025 by awarding the winner of the men's Junior Individual Time Trial U23 by The New Times.Tuesday,September 23,2025."

"It melts my heart to be here. I see great people;great leaders; I see the future for Bank of Kigali. Our challenge now is to keep you inspired, dreamming, creating, and developing because that is how we can shape the future."

"We need people to be ambitious to be to go out of the comfort zone and start businesses and try to grow in whatever they're doing, so they can have more impact for themselves but also on the communities."

"I never expected to experience the embarrassement of a failed transaction on my own card. But there i was, unable to withdraw cash from an ATM machine because my card had expired."

"This championship is more than a race; it’s a moment where Rwanda’s spirit and Africa’s resilience take the spotlight. Hosting the UCI Road World Championships here shows how far we’ve come, both as a nation and a continent, in shaping our own stories on the world stage."

"BK Academy: Building Rwanda’s Future Financial Human Capital;CEO Diane Karusisi.October 20,2023.https://www.ktpress.rw/2023/10/bk-academy-building-rwandas-future-financial-human-capital-ceo-diane-karusisi"

"It is innovation that fuels business growth, and keeps the global economy on the move."

"Skills are important, but as a Rwandan, i think we can testify about the importance and power of leadership in empowering women to be continually prepared for an increasingly changing and dynamic work environment."

"I recognise the importance of investing in women entrepreneurs as a smart business move."

"We are working with Miss Rwanda to sponsor a project that will appear more innovative than others. Another thing we are working with Miss Rwanda is to support a project that will appear to have a new one. We as BK believe that the development of our country will be done by people.(Dukorana na Miss Rwanda mu gutera inkunga umushinga uzagaragara ko ufite agashya kurusha iyindi.Ikindi dukorana na Miss Rwanda ni ugutera inkunga umushinga uzagaragara ko ufite agashya.Twebwe nka BK twemera ko kugira ngo igihugu cyacu gitere imbere bizakorwa n’abantu.)"

"It revealed terrible architecture and very limited capabilities to deal with digital, skills gap. So the journey had to involve a lot of heavy lifting, because we are working on infrastructure, architecture, new systems and construction of a new data center,” Karusisi said with a personal example of having an expired BK credit card but without knowing."

"Push your inner boundaries. It's good to have passion but hard work and persistence beats passion.(Shyira imbere ubushobozi bwawe bwose. Kugira ishyaka ni byiza, ariko gukora cyane no kudacika intege birusha ishyaka imbaraga.)"

"Most of the risk goes to girls but they don't get pregnant on their own […] those people who get pregnant should also be affected and recognized. The unfaithful person must also be affected. It is a very sad thing.(Ingaruka nyinshi zijya ku bakobwa ariko ntabwo baba biteye inda bonyine […] abo bantu babatera inda na bo bagombye kugerwaho n’ingaruka kandi bikamenyekana. Umuntu uhemuka agomba kugirwaho ingaruka na we. Ni ikintu kibabaje cyane)"

"We've seen in the past a lot of people bring solutions out there, but they don't really answer the problems in our company. I believe that style is very important. What we are looking at is a project that solves the problems, but it fits well with the concerns of the Rwandan community. It's a must-have project that solves a problem quickly and affordably.(Twabonye mu bihe byashize abantu benshi bazana ibisubizo hanze, ariko bidasubiza neza ibibazo biri muri sosiyete yacu.Nizera ko imiterere ari ngombwa cyane.Icyo tureba ni umushinga ukemura ibibazo ariko bihuye neza n’ibireba umuryango nyarwanda.Ni umushinga ugomba kuba ufite ikibazo ucyemura mu buryo bwihuse kandi buhendutse.)"

"When you are not ambitious, you can have all the education you want, but nothing much will happen.(Ubaye udafite inyota yo kugera kure, ushobora kugira amashuri menshi ushaka, ariko nta kintu kinini kizagerwaho.)"

"Leading means rallying people around a vision, clarity of visions it needs to be crystal clear, you need to be consistent the world has so many distractions. Stick to your vision and make sure people understand it.(Kuyobora bisobanura guhuriza abantu ku cyerekezo kimwe. Icyo cyerekezo kigomba kuba kigaragara neza, gisobanutse. Ugomba kugumana umurongo umwe kuko isi yuzuyemo ibintu byinshi bitatanya abantu. Hagarara ku cyerekezo cyawe, kandi umenye ko abantu bakizi kandi bagisobanukiwe.)"

"I am both encouraged and challenged by the resilience and determination of women entrepreneurs in a male dominated world."

"I want to tell all young women who have ambitions that it is possible to become the CEO of the Bank of Kigali, to be a minister, to be a leader in any field. I want to tell them that it is possible, and I want to tell them that I am not unique, they can also be leaders.(Ndashaka kubwira abakobwa bose bakiri bato bafite ibyifuzo ko bishoboka kuba Umuyobozi Mukuru wa Banki ya Kigali, kuba minisitiri, kuba umuyobozi mu rwego urwo ari rwo rwose.Ndashaka kubabwira ko bishoboka, kandi ndashaka kubabwira ko ntari umwihariko, bashobora na bo kuba abayobozi.)"

"As we are on the same journey, you will not hesitate to ask us and we are ready to help you with your needs. What we want is cooperation.(Ubwo turi mu rugendo rumwe ntacyo mwatwima kandi natwe twiteguye kubafasha mu byifuzo byanyu.Icyo twifuza ni ubufatanye.)"

"We wanted to cooperate with Miss Rwanda because we think it's a good thing, you as girls, I think that at 19, there are maybe about a million girls out here in Rwanda, maybe even outside of Rwanda, they look at you, they see that you are beautiful, but they see that you have opinions. good nation building. That's why we want to partner with you because we know there are a lot of people out there who are watching.(Twashatse gufatanya na Miss Rwanda kuko tubona ko ari igikorwa cyiza, mwebwe nk’abakobwa nibaza ko muri 19, hari abakobwa wenda bagera kuri miliyoni hanze aha mu Rwanda wenda no hanze y’u Rwanda babareberaho, babona ko muri beza, ariko babona ko munafite ibitekerezo byiza byubaka igihugu. Nicyo gituma natwe dushaka gufatanya namwe kuko tuzi ko hari abantu benshi bari hanze aha babareberaho.)"

"We have experienced the impact of a national shutdown (due to COVID-19 pandemic) and we are certainly not keen to have to resort to that again. Therefore, our actions over this (2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year) festive season will determine what happens in our country in the next few weeks."

"My brother, the problem with you guys (lawyers) is that people pay you to create confusion. Those like me, statisticians, they pay us to find solutions."

"Anytime you do anything that has impact at all, you are not universally loved."

"Besides, do we need the veil of statistics to state the obvious? Don’t we already know that , , sex workers, the homeless, , and other such people live precarious lives without any safety nets? Let alone an economic lockdown, they lose access to daily wages if they fall sick for even a day. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, Do we need a weatherman to tell us which way the wind blows?"

"Barring examples from Kerala and , most host states have demonstrated disregard for migrant workers. It behooves the host states to care about the migrant workers not only from a humanitarian standpoint but also from the perspective of the health of the economy. On its part, the central government has maintained a calibrated silence regarding this. Monopolising decisions and socialising losses are not what federalism is supposed to mean. Therefore, it is time that the poorer states realise that the unilateral lockdown is not just an assault on the dignity of the poor, but also an economic assault on the poorer state governments. Further, there has been a concerted effort by the central government and some host states to hold the labour captive in the richer states by making transportation procedures unreasonable."

"Worse still, on May 5, , , cancelled trains for migrant workers from Bengaluru to their home states. The decision was taken after a meeting between the chief minister and the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI). Neither migrant workers nor trade unions representing them were consulted. This was not only insensitive but a violation of the right to live with dignity (Article 21), right to freedom of movement (Article 19) and prohibition of forced labour (Article 23). The government decided to restore the train services only after protests."

"The 40-day lockdown was further extended at a time of sporadic expressions of resistance and anger by migrant workers in a few cities. Extreme precarity doesn’t have a singular expression. While some are responding with anger, others are responding with resignation. The severe distress among is not entirely by chance. It has been marinating for a while but the epic new scale has been manufactured due to the unplanned and unilateral decision of a lockdown taken by the prime minister. The arbitrariness and unpreparedness are evident from the confusing messages from the central government concerning transport for migrants. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an order on April 29 permitting inter-state travel for workers who want to return home and instructed the states to appoint nodal officers to develop (SOP). Thereafter the MHA issued another order on May 1 stating that “passenger movement by trains, except for security purposes or for purposes as permitted by MHA” was to be prohibited. This was followed by another order on May 3, which stated: “it is clarified that the MHA orders are meant to facilitate movement of stranded persons who had moved from their native places/ workplaces, just before the lockdown period…” Through these orders, the MHA has taken refuge in obfuscation. Notwithstanding the confusing orders, the constant shuffling of travel modes and costs further expose the central government’s lack of empathy, thought and planning. We present a highly generous estimate for the total travel cost by trains. If all of 6.5 inter-state migrants (Ravi Srivastava’s estimate of the number of migrants) were to return, and assuming an average ticket fare of Rs 650, the total travel cost comes to around Rs 4,200 crore. To put this number in perspective, the cost of the in Gujarat is reportedly Rs 3,000 crore. The PM-Cares as per news reports from early April had Rs 6,500 crore."

"The migrant worker distress has also exposed the inherent fractures of the “one nation” narrative that is one of the unique selling propositions of the BJP government. While it goes against the grain of the idea of India that has a rich tradition of pluralism, it is also meaningless from a governance standpoint. Migrant workers don’t carry their ration cards and so haven’t been able to avail of government rations in the states where they are stranded. The employers, s mostly, have largely abandoned them without paying them wages. Consequently, they are left to scrounge for food and are left without money. In many cases, they are stranded without knowing the local language. In this situation, it is the poorer state governments of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, etc. that have attempted to seek out “their people” stranded in richer states such as Maharashtra or Haryana and make cash transfers to their account. The economies of these richer states have benefited from the labour of migrants from the poorer states. However, the richer states have neither extended any financial support nor forced employers to pay wages to the workers."

"Suppose it is desired to test the efficiency of several treatments intended to destroy certain larvae on a field. The experiments are arranged in the usual way. The treatments compared are applied to particular plots with several replications and then the plots (or smaller parts of them) are inspected and all the surviving larvae are counted. Thus the observations represent the numbers of surviving larvae in several equal areas. It happens frequently that, while there is room for doubt as to whether there is any significant difference between the average number of survivors corresponding to particular treatments, there is no doubt whatever that the variablitity of the observations differs from treatment to treatment."

"The words "routine analyses" are used to denote the analyses performed by laboratories, frequently attached to industrial plants, and distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) All the analyses or measurements of the same kind, for example, are designed to measure the sugar content in beets or to determine the coordinates of a star. (2) The analyses are carried out day after day using the same methods and the same instruments. (3) While all the analyses are of the same kind, the quantity n varies from time to time, where n represents some small number, 2, 3, 4, 5."

"The future mathematical statistician needs early contacts with experimental sciences. He needs them because, at this stage of the development of statistics, the expeimental sciences are sources of theoretical problems. Also, he needs them because in almost any imaginable job which he may get after graduation, he will be called upon to apply his theory to experimental or observational problems."

"The development of modern science is marked by a pronounced tendency toward indeterminism. A somewhat brutal description of this tendency may be states as follows. In relation to some phenomena, instead of trying to establish a (deterministic) functional relationship between a variable y, and some other variables x1, x2, ... , xn, we try to build a (stochastic or probabilistic) model of these phenomena, predicting frequencies with which, in specified conditions, the same variable y will assume all of its possible values."

"[T]he laws of science are products of the human mind rather than factors of the external world."

"[R]andom spinning being assumed, the distribution of chance in the game depends upon the mechanical perfection of the teetotum; it must be equally likely to fall on all its thirty-seven sides, i.e. the frequency of all the numbers must in the long run be very nearly the same."

"[I]t is better to be content with the fraction of a right solution than to beguile ourselves with the whole of a wrong solution."

"[W]e have an equal number of black and red possibilities... Thus in a very great number of throws there ought to be 50 per cent of both. ...In no case... are the results exactly reached, but in all the cases of large numbers we have but small deviations from 50 per cent. Thus 16,141 roulette throws give slightly better results than 12,000 and slightly worse results than 24,000 tosses. We notice that... 16,019 roulette throws give nearly the worst percentage 50.27 instead of 50."

"The purpose of the mathematical theory of statistics is to deal with the relationship between 2 or more variable quantities without assuming that one is a single-valued mathematical function of the rest. The statistician does not think a certain x will produce a single-valued y; not a causative relation but a correlation. The relationship between x and y will be somewhere within a zone and we have to work out the probability that the point (x,y) will lie in different parts of that zone. The physicist is limited and shrinks the zone into a line. Our treatment will fit all the vagueness of biology, sociology, etc. A very wide science."

"[W]e are frequently told that the growth of science is destroying the beauty and poetry of life. It is undoubtedly rendering many of the old interpretations of life meaningless, because it demonstrates that they are false to the facts which they profess to describe. It does not follow from this, however, that the aesthetic and scientific judgments are opposed; the fact is, that with the growth of our scientific knowledge the basis of the aesthetic judgment is changing and must change. There is more real beauty [satisfaction,.. permanent delight] in what science has to tell us of the chemistry of a distant star, or in the life history of a protozoon than in any produced by the creative imagination of a pre-scientific age."

"Step by step [aesthetic] judgment, restless under the growth of positive knowledge, has discarded creed after creed and philosophic system after philosophic system."

"[W]hen the law is reached... it must be tested and criticised by its discoverer in every conceivable way, till he is certain that the imagination has not played him false, and that his law is in real agreement with the whole group of phenomena..."