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.

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

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

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

The 'reality' shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting our emotions in public in a way that has never happened before.

I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.