The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

—Daphne Koller

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About Daphne Koller

Portrait of Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller (Hebrew: דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is...

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Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

—Nicholas Sparks in Message In A Bottle

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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

—Alice Walker

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If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

—William Feather

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I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And, honey, that ain't easy either.

—Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, at 104

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