Jennifer Pahlka quotes
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“Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?”
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“We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.”
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“When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.”
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“If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.”
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“We have to make bureaucracy sexy.”
-- Jennifer PahlkaSource : "Coding a better government". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2012.
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“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.”
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“We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.”
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“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.”
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“[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.”
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“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.”
-- Jennifer PahlkaSource : "With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country" by Alexander Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
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“Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives,”
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“A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.”
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“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.”
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“Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.”
-- Jennifer Pahlka
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