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“Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.”
“Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.”
“For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.”
“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.”
“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 are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.”
“I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The American government will be whatever we all make of it.”
“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.”
“The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.”
“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.”
“People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.”
“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.”
“It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.”
“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.”
“Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.”