Luis Von Ahn Quotes

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.

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.

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.

I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."

I am an early riser, and always wake up between 5 and 6am.

I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.