Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

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

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

I have tried to be a leader. 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.

People at different stages of their lives are doing different things, and they're all using Google.