Alex Pareene Quotes

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

YouTube is my university.

I love documentaries and TED talks.

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

YouTube has so much great content. And it really has something for everybody. And people come up to me all the time and talk to me about how YouTube has changed their life, how they've been able to learn something they didn't think they could learn.

Every year, I come to TED prepared to roll my eyes a lot at the beginning, but knowing that at some point in the intellectual marathon, my brain will buckle to the cascade of ideas and bend to the painstakingly rehearsed presentations.

When I used to try and describe what the Khan Academy was, I would tell people that if it were a for-profit, I would be on the cover of 'Forbes.'

By early 2009, tens of thousands of students were watching tutorials on the Khan Academy every day. The software I wrote for my cousins had become so popular, it was making my $50-a-month web host crash. The possibilities surrounding the academy were so exciting that I had trouble doing my day job properly. And soon, I quit.

I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

I think what any student adds is the ideas they bring.

From the very beginning, our driving passion has been simple: to create and foster a platform where people across the globe can not only meet and interact, but share music, videos, thoughts and ideas.

You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned.

I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers.

The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.

Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.

The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively.

When I turned 17, I created a website for the students at my University. It enabled students to share lectures and discuss exams, and became popular very quickly.

I believe if we can crowdsource educational solutions to teachers on the front lines, who often know their kids better than anyone, we will unearth and generate better-targeted, smarter ideas.

There's so much information now, and that even goes down to the college game. You have so much video, you can watch every YouTube video of guys and mechanics, and so I just feel like the younger generation's more educated than ever before.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.