“The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’ It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves.”

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else’s freedom to express themselves.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people.

If you don’t risk anything you risk everything.

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.

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

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.

If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

You can download good music from internet.

It’s hard to find things that won’t sell online.

We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.