Quotes About Empowerment

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 daughter was 10 years old when she told me she hated computers. As someone who has spent her career helping build one of the largest tech companies in the world, I was in shock. Suddenly an issue I faced repeatedly at work - the lack of women in tech - hit squarely at home.

I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

I want somehow, some way, for us to be able to make our community and technical colleges free.

When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports performance. I felt that men were dressed really well both technically and visually, and women were almost like an afterthought.

On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.

I invented 'Christine' as a survival technique to deal with many things. I felt it would save me.

We want to make the old fast food model irrelevant. We want to make great ingredients and classic cooking techniques accessible to everybody.

I believe a lot of techniques and stuff has to do with confidence, and I think as my confidence grows, everything else will grow as well.

I am learning self-defense techniques.

The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.

I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.

Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.

Education is crucial in determining which profession women will choose, so it's important to spark interest in technologies at an early age.

My experience with Epic is handing off more and more power to the point where I can just sit back and look at our strategy or technology. I provide guidance without being responsible for any particular part of the company.

A lot of people forget that anything is accomplishable if you embrace technology.