Megan Smith

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

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

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.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

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.

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.

I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off.

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

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

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access.

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

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

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

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

Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

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.

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.