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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. "

Megan Smith

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Megan Smith

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