It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and eat good food.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

I usually make to-do lists with timelines, and pen and paper does the trick for me.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

No ale for the girl, Birgit, " Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.

With all your heart, reach out to your divine-dreams.

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous