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" 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. "

Mark Zuckerberg

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" I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life. "

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" I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. "

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" Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there. "

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" I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. "

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" I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me. "

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" I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side. "

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" The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself. "

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" 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. "

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" I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don't have a lot of furniture in our house, so it's really simple. And we're trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don't want to get isolated to do that. "

Mark Zuckerberg

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them. "

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" Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content. "

Mark Zuckerberg

" I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed. "

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" Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. "

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" You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years. "

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" The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. "

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" The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?' "

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" For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application. "

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" Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth. "

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" The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook. "

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

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" There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come. "

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" Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate. "

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" 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. "

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" No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good. "

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" Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. "

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" We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet. "

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" I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do. "

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" The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them. "

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