“It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.”

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.

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.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

I don’t know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

You think you might know something about yourself or why you act or react in certain ways and then you come to new information and suddenly you see your past and your present in a completely different light.

You have to know what you want to get it.

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.