Megan Smith Quotes
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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 have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.
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It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.
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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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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.
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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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What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.
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I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.
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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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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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There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.
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We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys.
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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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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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It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.
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Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.
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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.