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So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.
The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'
I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, 'Wow, these networks have a lot of information.'
I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.
As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.
VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.
When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.
Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.
Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie--or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.
Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.
Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.
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.
Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.
The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.
If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.
If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.
I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.
It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
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.
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.
What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.
Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.
It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.
The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.
I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.
With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.
Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.
If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.
People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.
We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change
We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.