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

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" 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. "

" I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more. "

" Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team. "

" Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "