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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. "

Megan Smith

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" 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. "

" Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son. "

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Megan Smith

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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. "

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

" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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