A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

“ Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. ”

— Mae Jemison

“ I think it's very important to get more women into computing. My slogan is: Computing is too important to be left to men. ”

— Karen Spärck Jones

“ Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid. ”

— Hedy Lamarr

“ What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ”

— Jane Goodall

“ I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ”

— Alan Turing, 1950

“ That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. ”

— Ada Lovelace

“ Don't be afraid to reach for the stars. I believe a good education can take you anywhere on Earth and beyond. ”

— Ellen Ochoa

“ The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. ”

— Ada Lovelace, 1843

“ I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed, anything that could be counted, I did. ”

— Katherine Johnson

“ A willingness to ask questions and to learn, that is what is important. ”

— Ellen Ochoa

“ Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. ”

— Marie Curie

“ What's above us connects us. Every group of people around the world have looked up at the stars for thousands of generations. ”

— Mae Jemison

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

“ Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men. I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better. ”

— Katherine Johnson

“ The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. ”

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 2011

“ The only way to survive is by taking care of one another. ”

— Grace Lee Boggs

“ Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. ”

— Wilma Rudolph

“ Pressure is a privilege. ”

— Billie Jean King, 2008

“ Culture does not make people. People make culture. ”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014

“ I'm ready mentally, physically, and emotionally. And I'm here to stay, I'm not back, I'm better. ”

— Sha'Carri Richardson, 2023