Megan Smith Quotes

Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access.

It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.

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.

It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.

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.

Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

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'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

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.

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.

What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.

We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

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.

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?

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

Don't think, just feel it. I know you do; I can see it on your face.

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.

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.

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.

I could conquer the world with one hand as long as you're holding the other.

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

One moment changes everything. One day can ruin forever. That one day changed us forever

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other.

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.

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.

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

I'm going to give my heart to him all over again. I have to. I need to and what he does with it is up to him because I'm giving him forever

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.

That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.

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.

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.

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.

Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.