Cory Gardner Quotes

The big challenge we’ve been confronting over the last two years is, how do we get women and people of color to join the F.B.I. ? That’s been our big trouble, and I’ve described it as a crisis.

As someone who's been lucky to have a great career in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career in this industry can be for women. And I want to make sure we continue to recruit and retain great female hires.

If we want little girls and young women and people of color to see they have a place in the tech world, it's up to us to make that place for them.

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

The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.

For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club.

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

While it's true that women are the minority in most tech companies, I don't think that inhibits entry into the tech space. My motto has always been, 'Live What You Love,' and as such, I think it's incredibly important to do work you believe in and to work for a company that has values that align with your own, be it in tech or another industry.

What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities.

We need policymakers to keep an eye on gender and write policies that are explicitly designed to include underserved populations like girls in computer science courses.

There are many women who are getting the opportunity to play fantastic parts on the web like Huma Qureshi in 'Leila,' Shefali Shah in 'Delhi Crime' and so many others. It gives opportunity to those who are not getting the work that they desire to do because of their age. So web is doing a social service.

I've always sought to give opportunities to women, to people who come from a different background, to add diversity to the mix - in that I think it makes our work better.

Theoretically, I have no business starting an organization called Girls Who Code, because I don't code.

I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.

We believe that if you want to have diverse leaders 10 years down the road, we've got to make sure they're getting the right assignments, the right client experiences today.