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" I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. "

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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? "

" 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. "

" I've been working on the lost history of technical women. "

" It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down. "

" Thinking through how to make sure we're bringing incredible toys and experiences and that to our girls and our boys at some point is really important for this country for the world in general. "

" Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science. "

" People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down. "

" Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion. "

" Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable. "

" I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia. "

" 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. "

" For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back. "

" You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government. "

" What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code. "

" Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access. "

" 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. "

" I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves. "

" The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation. "

" 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. "

" There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more. "

" Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son. "

" I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. "

" 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. "

" We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys. "

" I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical. "

" The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking. "