I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Discrimination is not done by villains. It's done by us. — Vivienne Ming Discrimination Copy Share Image
What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Estrogen's a wonderful thing. I'd be doing the dishes and suddenly be like, 'Wait a minute - why am I crying?' — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination. — Vivienne Ming Discrimination Copy Share Image
If you have a diverse workforce, then you have a much better chance of picking up on things that a lack of… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
AI might be a powerful technology, but things won't get better simply by adding AI. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
There are neural networks that can build whole apps from scratch - so why are we teaching high school kids to code? — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be… — Vivienne Ming Education Copy Share Image
Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities… — Vivienne Ming Being Copy Share Image
If you tell someone, 'Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,' it makes it less likely. If you… — Vivienne Ming Children Copy Share Image
I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences… — Vivienne Ming Business Copy Share Image
Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Passing on a full scholarship to MIT would be irrational for me, but to my father and his parents, what would have… — Vivienne Ming Father Copy Share Image
Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must… — Vivienne Ming Desire Copy Share Image
The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its… — Vivienne Ming Being different Copy Share Image
If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's wonderful. I'm so glad you… — Vivienne Ming Gay Copy Share Image
In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job? — Vivienne Ming Cancer Copy Share Image
If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me… — Vivienne Ming Choice Copy Share Image
Gender transition isn't about gender. It's about literally making yourself a better person because you know that's a better you. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
After I transitioned, a lot of people said, 'I like you so much more now,' because before, I was unhappy. Making that… — Vivienne Ming Change Copy Share Image
It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C… — Vivienne Ming Absence Copy Share Image
Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's… — Vivienne Ming Behavior Copy Share Image
