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

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.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

If you're a dancer, study singing.

If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.