“What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.”

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Baby cuddles are the best.

You can download good music from internet.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.

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.

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

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.

A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn’t be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

There’s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it?

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.