Rana el Kaliouby Quotes
I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
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I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.
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I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.
