Eileen Pollack Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture – a culture that teaches girls math isn’t cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics. – Eileen Pollack Cool Quotes Culture Quotes Dependent Quotes Excel Quotes Gender Quotes Girls Quotes Hard Quotes Math Quotes Matter Quotes Physics Quotes Sciences Quotes Success Quotes Teaches Quotes My brother had been given a chemistry set for his bar mitzvah, but he wasn’t interested in it. It was upstairs in the attic, and I would sneak up there and use it at great peril because I was afraid if he found out, he would get very angry at me, but he didn’t seem to care. If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.
Caterina Fake I worked at a Web development shop and other start-ups and eventually started a project called Ludicorp, which built an online game. We soon ran out of money, and Flickr was the last-ditch effort to save the company. It quickly became a very unstoppable juggernaut. – Caterina Fake
Dallas WillardFaithGod God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character. – Dallas Willard
Freddie Hubbard Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too. – Freddie Hubbard
Matt Nagy In high school, it was NEH-gee. In college, it was NAG-ee. Now we don’t know what it is. – Matt Nagy
Peter Capaldi Hollywood producers aren’t going to say, ‘Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new ‘High School Musical’ movie!’ – Peter Capaldi
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