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

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

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

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

Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.

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

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

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

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

I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

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

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