Anita Borg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
-- Anita Borg

#Unique #Impact #Political
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
-- Anita Borg

#Real #People #Leader
None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.
-- Anita Borg

#Track #Addresses #Devices
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.
-- Anita Borg

#Community #Computer #Existence
Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
-- Anita Borg

#Corporations
Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.
-- Anita Borg

#Reading #Drs #Culture

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.
You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

Anita Borg famous quotes

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