"You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with - in vain!"
— Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist. In 1936, she discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core.
Edit: As I cannot be counted on two ships and I took command of the Chin'toka after posting here, I feel it's more appropriate to be counted on my own vessel!
"There sat that beautiful big machine whose sole job was to copy things and do addition. Why not make the computer do it? That’s why I sat down and wrote the first compiler. It was very stupid. What I did was watch myself put together a program and make the computer do what I did." - Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, USN
When I said it mayfly, I didn't think I would end up in space!
(Lilian Bland was Ireland's first female pilot. Her plane was called the mayfly, because it "may fly, may not fly")
Happy Halloween you fascinating primates! (Ok that is my quote)
‘Every single day we’re on this planet, we make some kind of impact and we can choose what sort of impact we make. We need to make decisions based not on the next election campaign, not on the next board meeting, but on how this will affect future generations and climate change.’