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.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

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.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Once you have a computer that can do a few things – strictly speaking, one that has a certain ‚sufficient set‘ of basic procedures – it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of ‚Universality‘.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

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

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

I love good, loud speakers.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

Debates, I hate.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.