Jennifer Pahlka quotes:

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing."

If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

When there are more males in the industry to begin with, it just has a more male feel, and that pushes the girls away.

If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives,

A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.