54 Quotes by Chris Hughes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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