Susan Wojcicki Quotes

Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.

I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

I want kids, young women, young girls especially, who oftentimes by junior high they think they can't do math or science... I want them to know that it's creative, it's problem solving, and it's for everyone.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.

With 'Scratch,' we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

There is going to be 1.4 million tech and IT jobs coming in the next decade and only 400,000 trained people to fill them… why are not more people not training for it? I think it has to do with culture and feeling that it is daunting …

If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.

The Startup Act should give all Americans, not just immigrants, a better shot at being tomorrow's engineers and entrepreneurs. And that opportunity could begin at a young age with education in computer programming.

Every girl deserves the right to pursue their dreams.

I'm into people, especially kids and making sure they have a fair shake and making sure they reach their potential. So that's important to me.

It's hard for me to see myself as meaningful, but people seem to like my music, so who knows. Maybe my music is empowering some more young women to pick up songwriting/playing.

I work with elementary- and middle school-age girls.

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

The artist I would love to be is inspiring and strong: show that I can be vulnerable but still independent.

We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community.

I'm not building gyms. I'm not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I'm interested in doing film camps and coding camps.