Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.

It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.

Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

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

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

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

Facebook is inherently viral.

Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.

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

If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

I think I've grown and learned a lot.

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.

We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Stuff like photos and events and groups - we've built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up being so much more used because of their social integrations.

If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you're doing and go fix it.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.

It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.

The point of Facebook isn't the features, it's the people.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff.

We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.

I think that the tax situation needs to be worked out between the countries themselves.

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.

VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I'm really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this.

Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

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

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

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.