36 Quotes by Jennifer Pahlka

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

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.