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If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

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.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.