Quotes from Mark Zuckerberg

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.

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.

In retrospect, I do think it's fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

There are really two core principles at play here. There's giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there's keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We're not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

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

I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

We help Chinese companies grow their customers abroad. They use Facebook ads to find more customers. For example, Lenovo used Facebook ads to sell its new phone. In China, I also see economic growth. We admire it.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

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

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

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

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.

Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

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

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

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.