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" I've been working on the lost history of technical women. "
Megan Smith
Women
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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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" 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 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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" It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality. "
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" 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
" 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
" 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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Present
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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
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" 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
" For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back. "
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Know
You
Technology
" 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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Great
Science
Need
" I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. "
Megan Smith
School
Lucky
High School
" We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results. "
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Know
Results
More
" 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. "
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Experience
Writing
Science
" I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet. "
Megan Smith
Help
Technology
People
" It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down. "
Megan Smith
Lot
Down
Problems
" 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
" Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access. "
Megan Smith
Access
Talent
Everywhere
" 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. "
Megan Smith
Doing
Work
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. "
Megan Smith
Ship
Innovation
Mentor
" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "
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Great
Human
Personal
" Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. "
Megan Smith
Value
See
Power
" We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys. "
Megan Smith
Personal
Decided
Came
" 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
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" 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. "
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World
Apple
Google
" 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. "
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Thinking
Country
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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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Started
Greatest
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" Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code. "
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Perfect
Second
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" I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. "
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Eye
Great
Good
" In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team. "
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IBM
Early
Diverse