In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.

The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it.

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!