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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "

" 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. "