directors

"There were very few radio stations that played [Squallor's songs], yet they were a resounding success."

"[On the television program Non è la Rai, created with Irene Ghergo and of which he was also the director] My program isn't stupid; it's television, which, apart from a few very rare well-made programs, is completely idiotic. Except that others don't say so, and I shout it out loud."

"There is growing recognition and action to promote the balanced and meaningful participation of women and men in global security and disarmament processes. Through my position, I will actively support efforts to promote greater diversity of perspectives, equal participation of women and men and give room to innovate. I will also endeavor to bridge the gaps between disarmament policy and emerging fields such as in science and technology"

"As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape international security narratives and paradigms, I am pleased to welcome Dr. Paul Scharre. Paul Scharre is the vice president and director of studies at Center for a New American Security. He is the award-winning author of the book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. His first book Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War has won several awards and is seen as instrumental in understanding modern warfare."

"Win. Win. Win. I have a huge passion to win. I feel we tend to make excuses because we haven’t set our mind to win. Whatever it is that you do in life, you need to be in the top three"

"I am a people person. So whenever I engage, whether it’s a client or my own team, for me it’s not just about the work or task at hand. It is about knowing the person and what drives him"

"The disinvestment boom is not on her front burner. I have a clear focus on the bottom line"

"When I get whatever I've set my heart on - whether it is a mandate we must win or a person I wish to hire"

"That is exactly what power means to me - getting things done"

"In Artificial Intelligence, it is often said that the representation of knowledge is the key to the design of robust intelligent systems. In one form or another the principles of Knowledge Representation are fundamental to work in natural language processing, computer vision, knowledge-based expert systems, and other areas. The papers reprinted in this volume have been collected to allow the reader with a general technical background in AI to explore the subtleties of this key subarea. These seminal articles, spanning a quarter-century of research, cover the most important ideas and developments in the representation field. The editors introduce each paper, discuss its relevance and context, and provide an extensive bibliography of other work. "Readings in Knowledge Representation" is intended to serve as a complete sourcebook for the study of this crucial subject."

"Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way. Each of the various styles of representation is presented in a simple and intuitive form, and the basics of reasoning with that representation are explained in detail. This approach gives readers a solid foundation for understanding the more advanced work found in the research literature. The presentation is clear enough to be accessible to a broad audience, including researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, and object-oriented systems as well as artificial intelligence. This book provides the foundation in knowledge representation and reasoning that every AI practitioner needs."

"Your success is not your own, it is determined by many other influences"

"Being great is being passionate about what you do and seeing the benefit of that through the eyes of other people."

""Giving is very important: giving of yourself and giving of your time"."

""Honesty and integrity are critical to human behaviour"."

"You have to reflect very closely on decisions you make as they affect not only you but also others around you."

"You need to step back, don’t judge and take a breath"

"“my words can’t express gratitude but the smile of a child is the greatest motivation and is enormously rewarding”"

"No matter how big or small, all contributions are meaningful"

"You need to believe in yourself and others around you that are able and willing to assist you."

"By the time I escaped in January 2022, my cards were no longer mine. Outside, he was a gentleman. Opening doors etc, and back home, he had cleaned out my Nedbank accounts. Leaving me in 200k debt, which I only discovered after leaving him. I left him two properties"

"The future is bright. We just need to be smarter, wiser and more vigorous about how to get there."

"We are (particularly on my maternal side) heavily influenced by black history, culture, music, literature and art; these things have always been of value to us so performance came really easily to me"

"This is my child’s father. Samphiwa, who has not seen or met her. I got a protection order against him. If anything ever happens to me, never let him take her. He would repeatedly beat me up, starve and lock me up at yide ufe ndizokonwaba [die so that I can be happy]"

"Let us speak up and out against our perpetrators. No matter how small that action may seem to others. No matter how long ago it happened. Keeping quiet only protects them and leaves us drowning in pain"

"It is so clear that so many people are oblivious to the effects of drugs, black tax, abuse, GBV, sibling rivalry in our communities. Or they choose to behave like that here on the socials"

"Filmmaking is about creative entrepreneurship, and the transition I made from one filmic discipline to the next should be normalised, because not all creatives in filmmaking are limited to or only interested in one medium"

"I enjoy the magical moment that happens when all creative elements come together to make something that moves audiences"

"So desperate to make this work as back home I had another story… he knew. He would park outside work the whole day and wait for me. I made excuses. And I tried to understand and help. I was desperate not to be rough"

"I like to immerse myself in the material over and over again, so it becomes ingrained in me. I live, eat, breathe and feel the story until I can figure out how best I can tell it"

"I’ve always been (for a lack of a better word) a showman, and my interests in filmmaking peaked past performance because I always wanted to know what everyone else’s role in the ecosystem was; and I’ve always been fascinated by team work making the dream work"

"I believe that if we unlock the leadership potential of African women and girls,we can change them into compassionate change makers who will improve not only their circumstances but the circumstances of others."

"Because of the success of these training programs,I now serve as a leadership consultant to UN women working currently with South Sudan office to design leadership curricula to economically empower women and raise them as leaders in peace Building."

"“I’m not sure that any continent feels ready for women that are fearless. I’m not sure that we need people to be ready. I think that you show up. The more fearless women that emerge, the more we normalize ourselves.”"

"“For a lot of women, as we advance in leadership, we become so isolated and there’s no one to bounce anything off… No matter how rough the journey is, if you’re building your relationships with people behind you, with you, and ahead of you, then you’re not isolating yourself and you’ll have enough people around you to give you what you need.”"

"“First, you must never let laughter stop you… People will always have opinions of what you do and who you are, but you can’t let their opinions and their laughter stop you… Second, don’t let people steal your voice. Your voice is your power.”"

"“You cannot be your best self by yourself. None of us was created to be an island. You need those circles: who’s behind you, who’s with you, who’s ahead of you. You need to seek out mentors, coaches, and counsellors, and don’t be afraid to invest in yourself.”"

"“I saw a platform that I felt I could lead, and I went with everything that I had… I had been on this journey to stop being afraid of the things I was innately attracted to.”"

"“The question is how do we work with the private sector to recover the necessary financing and diversify the economy?”"

"“Can we reuse some of the technologies we use for other economic activities to recoup some of the investment already made in economies dependent on fossil fuels?”"

"This infrastructure will now need to be written down in value over a much shorter period or abandoned altogether."

"“These economies are heavily indebted in terms of the pipelines and refineries that have been developed to exploit those resources.”"

"The women’s movement has led the struggle, very bold, very courageous. But the change that is required­– respect for human rights of women– is not just the responsibility of women alone. So we need to mobilize and to involve men."

"I think that it is important that women grab the opportunities that are there. Young women must stay at school much longer. They must delay having children until they can afford to have and look after them. They must be assertive and not be afraid to talk and to engage, because this world belongs to them just as much as it belongs to men."

"The moral of the story there is that it’s important to be involved and be engaged. Being involved also showed to me the importance of having men as part and parcel of the women’s struggle."

"Well, it was women in the labour movement in the 1900s that gave us this day. They were calling for bread; they were calling for better working conditions and they were calling for peace. Guess what? We are calling for the same things today, in different ways. We are rededicating ourselves to the struggles of today. Today, for instance, we are calling for decent work because women continue to be at the bottom of the pyramid of economic activity and the work and the jobs that they do continue to be informal and to be low paid."

"It is important that women celebrate themselves but also that they don’t only preach to the converted and go out there and win more allies for our struggle."

"We are also calling for women to be given equal pay for work of equal value, but also women still do a lot of unpaid work at home: caring for the aged, caring for children and that means that women cannot go out in the labour market and be part of the formal economy. So we are still, in a way, campaigning for the same thing. Women are campaigning for peace in countries where there is conflict. Women are campaigning against violence against women, which also means that where women have experienced domestic violence at home and outside the home they are not at peace with themselves."

"We don't have a groundswell in a critical mass of countries that have allowed young people to take their rightful place. So something has to change in Africa, so that we do not have so many young people who are so desperate."

"This is where you can see that it is really necessary to open up and allow young people to play the role they want to play in providing leadership and solutions in society."