Tech Skills Quotes

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

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

We want to teach girls of color the skills they need and create a diversity of voices into the tech community.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.

Learning to code at a young age opened my eyes to the incredibly exciting world of technology and entrepreneurship. Our youth deserve the opportunity to learn the skills that will enable them to succeed in our connected world.

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

Sara is about as tech-savvy as your grandma.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

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 …

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

I'm more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps.

A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do.

I was doing music tech as a subject and learned how to use Logic Pro and that's when I kind of had a platform to put my ideas on. It all just went from there.

It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

Honestly, I'm not so much of a tech guy.

The world is looking for big data scientists, and there just aren't enough to go around.

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

I definitely think there needs to be more of a focus and movement on getting coding taught in schools. There's really only so much after-school programs like Black Girls Code can do to really drive that change. And those classes shouldn't only take place in high school. We should make sure that we teach kids about coding at an early age.