Quotes from Hank Green

I love online video. I've been obsessed with it since day one.

I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.

I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.

I'm a professional maker of online video and I love platform diversity of every kind.

Conventions are expensive to run and attend.

Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

On paper, I am a Tesla guy. I've got money, I'm a nerd, and for years I professionally ran a blog advocating for technology that helps decrease our impact on the environment. I love what Tesla does.

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things - and we like doing cool new things.

My father was the Florida state director of The Nature Conservancy.

I am a professional creator of online video and I have had that job since the moment of its existence. I'm also something of a professional advocate for, and follower of, online video.

I am not fragile.

You're going to make decisions that are not in your best financial interest because they make you happier or more fulfilled or because of your values. You're going to do that because you're a good, smart person.

The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively.

It's really interesting to bring an Internet community into the real world.

You are always a little bit wrong

Ultimately, the Internet is made of people and we need to do a good job at being citizens of that space.

I still do believe in the power of the Internet for good. I believe it's a net positive. I believe that it does connect people. It does give people a chance to be more of themselves. It does allow for content to be created for audiences that were being completely ignored and neglected.

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.