I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
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Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.
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What this quote means
Coding is a crucial skill in today's digital age, akin to literacy.
In this quote, Susan Wojcicki emphasizes the importance of coding in modern society, comparing it to writing in the context of the new industrial revolution. She suggests that while many people are adept at using computers, a significant gap remains in their ability to create and understand code, which is becoming as fundamental as reading and writing.
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CodingWritingLiteracyTechnologyIndustrial Revolution
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In a tech conference discussion about the future of education.
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