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I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.


My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.


Buzz is not what I am looking for.


As a child I wanted to become an architect.


Ads shouldn't be in people's way.


I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.


You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.


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.


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


People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.


Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.


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


I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.


I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.


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


Anybody can be ambitious.


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.


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.


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