Chris Hughes Quotations

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

I'm surprised at how much Facebook.com has burrowed itself into real life along with instant messaging, text messaging and e-mail, ... It's another reason to be on the Net. So many people come back because it's fun and useful. They use it to find people, they meet people, organize a party and so many other things.

In terms of what we offer to advertisers, it's an accessibility to a college audience that is pretty unparalleled,

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

I exercise most days.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I think Twitter is great.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

Profit per se is not my motive.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

Anybody can be ambitious.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

The idea was to take an information directory and put it online and give students control over what information they wanted to share with each other.