"I love what I do and I’m a workaholic, so for sure men who don’t like alpha women will not be very attracted to this side of my personality. I don’t think I will ever be a housewife type of girl, I feel that I will want to work, achieve and create value for others even when I’m 80 years old. Not everyone likes that, and it’s totally fine with me"

"As for , we are in a really good place now because we are acknowledging more and more how unfair the business has been in the past. There were really strong male voices at the forefront and now it seems like we are making room at the table for other people, and writers from places we never really allowed into the . That incorporates race and gender and , and class as well, so we are seeing people writing nature who we didn’t get to see before. We see mothers who just get an hour a day to write and they send off to a contest and they win and black writers and BIPOC writers who are writing and being recognized for their work. In the natural world we are all on the same level but that hasn’t happened in the publishing world. Seeing things change gives me such joy."

"In old , butterflies were the souls of the dead and it was unlucky to harm one. The , however, was thought to be the devil and was persecuted. The idea of the butterfly as the embodiment of the soul implies their ability to cross into the . My ancestors often saw no boundary at all between wild places and that Otherworld which we cannot see."

"On the morning of my thirty-fifth birthday, I woke up to an ' newspaper article entitled 'Mass extinction of species is happening in Ireland'. The article stated that a third of the species groups examined are threatened with extinction, predominantly due to , , and . A number of species are, in fact, , and without urgent action being taken immediately, they will simply disappear entirely from this island. That morning, I spent so many hours researching what we have already lost — what we risk losing any day — that I nearly wept with the sadness of it all. Some of those creatures in most danger are the , the , the , the bumblebee, the , the and the ."

"... Cacophony of Bone is a record of days, a meditation on the passing of time, and a deep noticing of the world around us—trees, moths, birds, water, and the comfort of animals. ... Cacophony of Bone revisits similar topics from ní Dochartaigh’s first memoir, Thin Places, but with a new perspective—of sobriety, finding a partner to share life with, a home she may stay at longer than any other place, and the new longing to become a mother."

"The idea that taking a tariff rate of 1.5 percent and turning it into a tariff rate of 15 percent plus is somehow a win for Americans — I’m just baffled by the concept. Because no one would say that if you took the sales tax on certain goods and you increased it 15-fold, that was a win for Americans. But effectively, that’s what we’ve done."

"They still had the last mile to go, but they were directionally there. The labor market was strong. And then President Trump took office."

"We’re going to see an inflation uptick, and we’re going to see a weaker labor market as a result of all that has already been done."

"And all this gets to the question that I have really struggled with — and still can’t quite answer for you now: What exactly are the tariffs for? What is the point of the tariffs? How do we measure success for this new ordering of global trade?"

"Although there were a lot of people who were going to go into corporate law or who were interested in financial institutions, the nature of the classes, because they were situated in the law school, was that you didn’t do a lot of the things that you would do in a core finance course: understanding balance sheets, thinking through whether an investment opportunity makes sense, testing whether a firm experienced abnormal returns when its earnings were announced."

"I’m excited about being part and parcel of the experience for students that are thinking through this next stage of their careers."

"What is most exciting about Penn is that it feels like a community where those sorts of relationships are organically developed."

"The parts of law school that I loved most were the relationships I had with my classmates and the relationships I had with faculty, many of whom are my mentors and advisors that I still look up to tremendously in my own career. I’m really excited about being that kind of person, I hope, to this next generation of law students."

"As I’ve grown in my career, I’ve begun to understand just how blessed I was to be afforded the opportunity to attend college and pursue my dreams."

"As I was fortunate, it is my responsibility to reach back and help others, especially those most under-resourced."

"You know, everyone has different reasons for why they believe in something, so I try to be relatively tolerant. But in terms of going down the rabbit hole of social media on that topic, I kind of let my comms team manage that. I really try not to engage with those folks."

"Every analysis of increased tariffs, both those we have published at The Budget Lab and from others, finds the same thing: tariffs make Americans poorer. American consumers pay the cost of tariffs in the form of higher prices."

"The current system really doesn’t work well for people who are lower income in our society because we have banks that charge them exorbitant fees. Consumers then don’t want to go to banks because of those fees and instead turn to alternatives like payday lenders, which end up charging even higher fees."

"Tackling waste, fraud, and abuse would mean going to the agencies that administer spending themselves — not the BFS."

"These are achievable goals. While the challenges we face are significant, they are not insurmountable."

"You have this regulatory intervention that may have been well-intentioned to help consumers, but overall consumers are actually being hurt."

"But listening is a skill, and like any skill, it takes practice. Some may have more natural talent for it, like playing a sport or musical instrument, but we all can, and should, put serious effort into getting better at it. Your effectiveness and happiness depend on it. Good listeners are not only good doctors, they are good human beings."

"Being a good listener is about creating a situation where people feel comfortable telling you things. A lot of that has to do with demeanor. The best listeners project openness, patience, and a sincere curiosity to hear the other person’s story. You need to ask the right questions, pick up on little Easter eggs hidden in the conversation, and also detect subtle, nonverbal cues about how the person is feeling or what they may be holding back. I go into detail about how to accomplish this in my book"

"Depersonalise it. We all feel hesitant. If you’re unconvinced, read the studies on ‘imposter syndrome’ amongst senior executives. Get in the ring. It’s the only way to find out what your abilities really are – and to start improving them."

"Work on something you care deeply about. The bumps are easier if succeeding will benefit others. An extraordinary entrepreneur friend of mine, Priv Bradoo, shared some great advice she got from a male mentor. He said that to succeed, you need a big ego. If you don’t have a big ego, you need a strong sense of purpose to compensate."

"Because I analyse data as well as testing theories, a lot of my time is spent writing (and debugging) computer code, and doing statistical analysis. It is very rewarding to go from a theory that you think might explain our universe, to the nitty gritty of data analysis. I’m lucky to be able to work in both areas."

"Would you be content using only 50% of your brain, if you could instead use 100%? Similarly, any rational society surely profits from deploying in its economy 50% more of its human capacity and potential."

"The number and the enormity of important problems that exist to be solved – and the brief time and chance each have to help solve them."

"I hate generalisations around particular traits or characteristics – even if there is some truth in them. Diversity per se, is generally a good thing – reducing the risk of ‘group think’, for one and bringing more women into business is a powerful way to increase diversity."

"I am a cosmologist, which means that I spend my time thinking of the universe and how it formed and evolves with time. I work with a combination of data and theory – it is important to me to make sure that our theories actually match the data we observe!"

"The Moroccan context does not encourage women to begin entrepreneuring.""

"DabaDoc was initially developed to help health professionals manage their agenda and digitize patient pathways. It now helps digitalize patients’ records and offers a reliable and secure video consultation platform to doctors who have adopted this cutting-edge tool."

"“We might not know when the next global food crisis will happen, but as long as humans around the world rely on animals for their food and livelihoods, it’s never too early to plan for it.""

""Food is personal. But our agricultural systems are global.”"

"“In a world that is increasingly isolationist, we need to come together.”"

""I think it’s important for women to know that they can do anything they want. I think we have to change the perception in our culture about women. As a woman, you have to go after what you want and what you need, but stay true to yourself.”"

"“I did not try to fit in.""

"Some people take days to pick their company name, I tell entrepreneurs that they’re majoring in the minor. I say pick what you like and keep it moving, you can build a brand on it"

"He said it’s impossible, girls don’t build rockets and I’ll end up in the kitchen."

"“it’s your obligation to say something if you see something that impacts humanity.”"

"I told myself I wasn’t going to try anything again, I’m a failure in life"

"“In a world where you’re trying to make an ecosystem more efficient and more sustainable, more people need to have access to a certain level of information. And the only way you make that level of information available at a cheap enough cost is AI.”"

"It’s important that we take care of the planet, it’s important that we take care for the next generation — even as an organization, as we work with a lot of children."

"It’s important that we upskill the African population — especially women and girls, who are mostly the vulnerable group — to have 21st-century skills, which are digital and technology knowledge, to be able to be competitive, get better jobs, and enrich their lives."

"Technology drives everything that we do, and it is important that women and girls are not left behind."

"For us as a social enterprise, we are big in bridging that gender gap in the digital and technology economy, which is changing everything around us."

"What we are preparing our young children, or the generation that is now in school, to be are employees who think nationally instead of globally.""

"“You don’t even have to go to university… just look, think, use whatever tools are available to you, and create a solution… If no one is employing you, employ yourself and others by creating your own business.”"

"There is so much potential that is untapped in Africa. If you just look to your environment, to your community, there are so many problems that you can solve in all sectors in Africa."

"“ICT has the potential to take away unemployment in Africa; it has the potential to produce quality SMEs and huge companies; it has the potential to solve social issues… it has the potential to change our education system.""