Alexis Ohanian Quotes

It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.

You know you've made it when you're a GIF.

You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

I don't really care much about being a meme. That's not what I want to be known for, as being a meme from 2016. That's not what I'm here for.

I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

To be honest, when I can feel that a lot of people are watching me, I get a little scared, but at the same time, it inspires me.

History teaches us hope.

Be passionate. If you are passionate, you will ultimately succeed.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

So to any of us, whatever those things are: whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we're chasin'. To that I say: Amen. To that I say: Alright, alright, alright. To that I say: Just keep livin'. Thank you.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.