Mark Zuckerberg
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.Collection: Block
If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.Collection: School
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.Collection: Running
I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.Collection: Business
The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.Collection: Real
More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers.Collection: Use
Why are most chess masters under 30?Collection: Chess
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.Collection: Communication
You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.Collection: Team
With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.Collection: Thinking
In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.Collection: Thinking
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.Collection: People
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.Collection: Fun
We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.Collection: Education
The point of Facebook isn't the features, it's the people.Collection: People
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.Collection: Communication
Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.Collection: Internet Access
I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them.Collection: Hate
Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Unique
When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right? Like you can plug a keyboard or a mouse in but that's a trick because the computer thinks the inputs are outputs. That's a programmer trick, basically magic. The key to the future is to make holes that go in too.Collection: Thinking
Some of the best ideas throughout the company's evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it's an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.Collection: Team
Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.Collection: People
Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.Collection: Real
There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.Collection: Machines
While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.Collection: Believe
I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakesCollection: Running
It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.Collection: Greatness
I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.Collection: Thinking
Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.Collection: Europe
When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us.Collection: Jobs
I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.Collection: Thinking
Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.Collection: Thinking
Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.Collection: Government
When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.Collection: Communication
Move fast, take risks, it’s okay to try big things you’re better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.Collection: Risk
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.Collection: Inspirational Entrepreneurship