In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it’s kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years – maybe even sooner.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

Pessimism never won any battle.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Connectivity is a human right.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that’s DJ Khaled. That’s Khaled for real. That’s Khaled.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

People want to feel hopeful.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.