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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back. "

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

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

" 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. "