Zitat des Tages von 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?
We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.
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.
Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.
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.
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.
There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.
It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.
The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
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.
The American government will be whatever we all make of it.
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 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 very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.
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 was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.
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.
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.
Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.
Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.