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" It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality. "
Megan Smith
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" 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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" 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. "
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" We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started. "
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" We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results. "
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" 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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" People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down. "
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Down
Ideas
" In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team. "
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Early
Diverse
" 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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" Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion. "
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Passion
Kid
" The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation. "
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Science
Opportunity
" I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. "
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Lucky
High School
" The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising. "
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Best
Technology
" 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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Growing
Women
" 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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Person
Government
" 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
" Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son. "
Megan Smith
Daughter
Who
Son
" 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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Kid
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" 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. "
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Fair
Learning
Money
" Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code. "
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Perfect
Second
Learn
" I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves. "
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School
Think
Kindergarten
" Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you. "
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History
Know
" I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. "
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Eye
Great
Good
" 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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Work
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" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "
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" We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech. "
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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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" 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
" 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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Talking
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" 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