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

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

I think Twitter is great.

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity. It is not…

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

Anybody can be ambitious.

— Chris Hughes

I exercise most days.

— Chris Hughes

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading…

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

Profit per se is not my motive.

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

— Chris Hughes

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

— Chris Hughes

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip.…

— Chris Hughes

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

— 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

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