A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ 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

“ 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

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

— Marie Curie

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

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Mae Jemison

“ 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

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

— Ellen Ochoa

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

— Ellen Ochoa

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

“ 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

“ 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

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

— Ada Lovelace

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

— Jane Goodall

“ I got my start by giving myself a start. ”

— Madam C.J. Walker, 1912

“ Turn your wounds into wisdom. ”

— Oprah Winfrey

“ In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now. ”

— Wangari Maathai, 2004

“ I do hope that people can relate and understand it's O.K. to not be O.K., and it's O.K. to talk about it. ”

— Naomi Osaka, 2021

“ It's pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven't made up your mind which way to go. ”

— Madam C.J. Walker

“ Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. ”

— Nikki Giovanni