<blockquote>Shortly after the press conference, President Barack Obama <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656" target="_blank">extended a Twitter invitation</a> for Ahmed to bring his “cool clock” to the White House. “We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great,” the tweet read.

Josh Earnest, Obama's press secretary, said the case goes to show how stereotypes can cloud the judgment of even the most “good-hearted people.”</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school-so-you-tried-to-make-a-bomb.ece">Ahmed Mohamed swept up, 'hoax bomb' charges swept away as Irving teen's story floods social media | Dallas Morning News</a>.
<blockquote>“Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest,” Zuckerberg wrote. “The future belongs to people like Ahmed.”</blockquote>