Quotes from Chris Hughes

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

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

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

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.

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.

Profit per se is not my motive.

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.

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

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

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.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

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

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

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

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

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.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

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

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

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

No, I'm not running for office someday.