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.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn’t really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn’t until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

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

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.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

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.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Electronic books are junk.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

People everywhere love Windows.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

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.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.