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Megan Smith Quotes

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

– Megan Smith

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?

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

The American government will be whatever we all make of it.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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

– Megan Smith

Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.

– Megan Smith

Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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

– Megan Smith

The more people we can attract to science and technology – men, women, everybody – the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.

– Megan Smith

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

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.

– Megan Smith

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

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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.

– Megan Smith

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

– Megan Smith