“Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.”

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

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.

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

I believe governments should take a more active role around important issues like balancing expression and safety.

Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do.

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.

I’m trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.

You don’t let people deter you. Thats how you do it.

Whatever you build, build with care. Anyone who has built something big, has done it with care.

Our work to improve privacy continues today.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.

I think the internet is really good in general because it helps people get access to more information.

It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do.

I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

I had to find the interconnection of my brain together with my physiology.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn’t long before I set up a lemonade stand.

Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.