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" There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more. "
Megan Smith
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I've been working on the lost history of technical women. "
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" 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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" 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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" Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code. "
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" I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. "
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" Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable. "
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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. "
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" We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech. "
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" Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion. "
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" People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down. "
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" I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off. "
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" You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government. "
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" 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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" 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? "
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" I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. "
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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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" It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down. "
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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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" We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. "
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