Quotes from Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.