Mark Zuckerberg

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

Our strategy is very horizontal. We’re trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically, we’re trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social, whether it’s on the web or mobile or other devices. So inherently, our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

It’s, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we’ve had some very serious ups and downs.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage… and we want to work this out, so that way, it’s a profitable model for our partners.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

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.

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don’t do that by having a service people pay for.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.