Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
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.
The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.
People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.
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.
We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.
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.
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.
