Quotes By Chris Hughes
I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
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
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
Chris Hughes
My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
Chris Hughes
I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
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
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
Chris Hughes
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
Chris Hughes
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.
Chris Hughes
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
Chris Hughes
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.
Chris Hughes
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
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