Megan Smith Quotes
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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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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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Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.
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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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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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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 love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.
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People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.
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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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Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.
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I've been working on the lost history of technical women.
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There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.
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We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
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In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.
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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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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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Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.
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Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access.
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Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
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The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
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I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.
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Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.
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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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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.