54 Quotes by Ory Okolloh

I have a very introverted real personality.

I'm not sure I'd be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it's a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I'd like to see technology to move beyond the hype and be considered part of infrastructure... the way you see access to water. I would like it to move away from apps and mobile money. So that everyone has their TV and their Wi-Fi, and it's just ubiquitous. I think that's where we should be headed.

The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the time, it's me.

In Kenya particularly, we have a lot to say - we're sort of obsessed with politics. We have three nightly news broadcasts, predominantly bad politics.

Technology influenced me in that it gave me an opportunity to have a voice as a woman. I think it's because the barriers to entry tend to be a bit lower.

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.