Mark Zuckerberg

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it’s too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.

Nothing does more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.