Anita Borg Quotes

Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

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

When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

I am a woman, and I am proud to say that I work in technology. But I also recognise that the combination of those two facts puts me in the minority.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

What I want to do is encourage women to take on this incredibly exciting and fun challenge to use their brains for the benefit of humanity but through science and technology.

I don't see females in the industry collaborating as much as guys do, so I really would love to entertain more of that.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

I think there is a role for us as women to contribute to the future of technology.

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.

We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America's leading tech companies, leading the path for other women.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden.

It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

I have always admired women that have a strong sense of self, complemented by femininity. I especially appreciate the presence of these women in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as real estate.