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Building Quote by Anita Borg

“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.” quote by Anita Borg — Download Open image

“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.”

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If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be…

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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

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The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

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The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

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None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.

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The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

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Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women…

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If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male…

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Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.

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It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

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There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

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Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required…

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I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading…

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I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

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Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So…

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