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" For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back. "
Megan Smith
Know
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Technology
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" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "
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" I've been working on the lost history of technical women. "
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" It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases. "
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" People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down. "
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" If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome? "
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" I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. "
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" What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface. "
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" It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down. "
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" Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable. "
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" Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. "
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" We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you. "
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" There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost. "
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" Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry. "
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" I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard. "
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Now
Becoming
" You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government. "
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American
Future
Government
" To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it's innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it's the talented people who work here who the bureaucracy's holding back, or the amazing American people. "
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People
Amazing
Change
" Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son. "
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Daughter
Who
Son
" There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more. "
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" I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet. "
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People
" I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off. "
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Hand
Beginning
Like
" I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do. "
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Working
Person
Government
" Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important. "
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Curriculum
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" There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program. "
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Class
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" We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream. "
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Science
Need
" The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to. "
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Want
" There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea. "
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" Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time. "
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Internet
How
Important
" It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born. "
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" Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code. "
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Second
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