People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

- Luis Von Ahn

[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.

- Luis Von Ahn

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 …

- Luis Von Ahn

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, ac…

- Luis Von Ahn

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?

- Luis Von Ahn

If you get asked to do something that would take place down the road (say you get asked to speak at a conference that's a year away) and you wouldn't…

- Luis Von Ahn

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

- Luis Von Ahn

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

- Luis Von Ahn

Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just s…

- Luis Von Ahn