Frances Arnold 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.

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

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

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

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

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.

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

I was Google's first woman engineer.

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

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.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

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

Very few women are creative. I would not send a daughter of mine to study physics.

We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.

I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?

We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.