Quotes from Chris Hughes

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I think Twitter is great.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

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

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

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

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.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity. It is not aspiration, for it is devoid of hope. We cannot influence fate: we will all die and our individual beings will be obliterated. But we have a choice in how we live. A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

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.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

Anybody can be ambitious.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

I exercise most days.