In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
— Mark Zuckerberg
Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
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 started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.
Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
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.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
We're running the company to serve more people.
Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
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.
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
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.
I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
