These women in tech quotes celebrate everything that women are: inspiring, powerful and smart. Women in tech bring strong communication skills, empathetic leadership and a different perspective on the world, and make the tech world a better place.

Quotes from Powerful Women

1. Sheryl Sandberg

“Fortune does favour the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”

Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook

2. Safra A. Catz

“I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.”

Safra A. Catz, CEO of Oracle

3. Kate Crawford

“With big data comes big responsibilities.”

Kate Crawford, co-founder of New York University’s AI Now Institute

4. Ellen Pao

“If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.”

Ellen Pao, co-founder and CEO of Project Include

5. Susan Wojcicki

“Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what’s going to happen”

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube

Quotes from Badass Women

6. Reshma Saujani

“‘Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It’s the key to success.’ This one I learned from experience!”

Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code

7. Gwynne Shotwell

“If you’re not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you’ll be left behind.”

Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX

8. Kimberly Bryant

“If technology is designed mostly by white males, who make up roughly half our population, we’re missing out on the innovation, solutions, and creativity that a broader pool of talent can bring to the table.”

Kimberly Bryant, Founder of Black Girls Code

9. Frances Haugen

“All change begins by believing the world can be better.”

Frances Haugen, Advocate for accountability & transparency in social media, Facebook whistleblower

10. Dr. Fei-Fei Li

“The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.”

Dr. Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute

Quotes from Women Changing the World

11. Rana el Kaliouby

“By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.”

Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and Co-founder of Affectiva, Author of Girl Decoded

12. Morgan DeBaun

“Execution and failure is part of the process. You have to accept that.”

Morgan DeBaun, Founder of Blavity

13. danah boyd

“The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.”

danah boyd, President And Founder, Data & Society Research Institute