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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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