People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

My Twitter reflects what’s going on with me in my life.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Be not a slave of words.

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Understanding is a two-way street.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

One must steer, not talk.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

War is what happens when language fails.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, ‚Wow, these networks have a lot of information.‘

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

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

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.