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.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Science is magic that works.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

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

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

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

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

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.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

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

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.