Anita Borg Quotes
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.
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I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.
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Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
