Mark Zuckerberg

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

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.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‘What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?’

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.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges… If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I’d care to know about you.

The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’

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.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Google’s policy on a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line, but not cross it.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

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

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

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.