Anita Borg Quotes

#1. In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would celebrate their contributions to the field and to the world.

Telle Whitney

#2. Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

Megan Smith

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

Anita Borg

#4. Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

Phil Klay

#6. I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#7. Women will change the corporation more than we expect.

Anita Borg

#8. The only failed book is the one that was never written, out of fear-of-failure.

Giuseppe Bianco

#9. 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

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

Anita Borg

#11. 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

#12. If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

Anita Borg

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

Anita Borg

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

Anita Borg

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

Anita Borg

#16. Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Charles Spurgeon

#17. Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Seth Godin

#18. If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.

Anita Borg

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

Anita Borg

#20. 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

#21. What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency.

Bocafloja

#22. I believe women think differently.

Anita Borg

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

Anita Borg

#24. Let men do their duty and the women will be such wonders; the female lives from the light of the male: see a male's female dependants, you know the man.

William Blake

#25. I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

Jack Kirby

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

Anita Borg