Quotes By Chris Hughes
My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
Chris Hughes
I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
Chris Hughes
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.
Chris Hughes
I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
Chris Hughes
Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
Chris Hughes
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
Chris Hughes
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.
Chris Hughes
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.
Chris Hughes
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
Chris Hughes
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
Chris Hughes
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
Chris Hughes
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.
Chris Hughes
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.
Chris Hughes