Areas Quote by Luis von Ahn Download Open image “Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.” — Luis von Ahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Areas Broads Education Focus Language Language learning Learning
I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it. — Gwenno Copy Share Image
I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
If you get asked to do something that would take place down the road (say you get asked to speak at a conference that's… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to transform education.… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted. — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world. — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind. — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area. — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of… — Jim James Copy Share Image
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
