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.

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.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.