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" What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface. "
Megan Smith
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Mac
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" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "
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" Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access. "
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" There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more. "
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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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" I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet. "
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" I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. "
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Great
Good
" 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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Kid
Present
Interesting
" 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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Amazing
Change
" Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value. "
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See
Power
" 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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Science
Opportunity
" 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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Facts
You
Science
" I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves. "
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School
Think
Kindergarten
" 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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Infinite
History
Know
" 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? "
Megan Smith
Digital
Awesome
Country
" 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. "
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Fair
Learning
Money
" 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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Experience
Writing
Science
" I've been working on the lost history of technical women. "
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Women
Been
History
" We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech. "
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Amazing
Rover
Only
" Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code. "
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Perfect
Second
Learn
" It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down. "
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Lot
Down
Problems
" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "
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American
Whatever
Will
" I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off. "
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Hand
Beginning
Like
" 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. "
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Ship
Innovation
Mentor
" 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. "
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Working
Person
Government
" 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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People
Want
" We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results. "
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Know
Results
More
" 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. "
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Early
Door
You
" 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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Started
Greatest
How
" Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion. "
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Unique
Passion
Kid
" I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. "
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School
Lucky
High School