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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

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.

Only bad books have good endings.if a book is any good, its ending is always bad_because byou don't want the book to end.

Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.

What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.