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Mark Zuckerberg

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“I understood that some parts were still a little sketchy and I wanted some more time to think about whether or not this was really appropriate to release to the Harvard community.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Issues about violating people’s privacy don't seem to be surmountable, I’m not willing to risk insulting anyone.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Facemash Creator Survives Ad Board" The Harvard Crimson (November 19, 2003)
“My goal is to not have a job. Making cool things is just something I love doing, and not having someone tell me what to do or a timeframe in which to do it is the luxury I am looking for in my life.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Harvard's student newspaper, The Crimson, June 2004, Business Insider (Feb 6, 2016)
“It is better to buy than compete. (from a 2008 email)”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember your internal post about how Instagram was our threat and not Google+. You were basically right. One thing about startups though is you can often acquire them. (private message to colleague on April 9, 2012 when Instagram was purchased)”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From documents revealed during a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, as cited in "'It's better to buy than compete': The FTC is using Mark Zuckerberg's own words against him", Business Insider (10 December 2020)
“Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuckerberg: Just ask Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. Zuckerberg: I don't know why. Zuckerberg: They "trust me" Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Instant messages sent by Zuckerberg during Facebook's early days, reported by Business Insider (May 13, 2010)
“It’s not unusual for us to receive an email from somebody saying, “I spend all of my time on your website and now I have less of a social life than I had before.” We would much rather have people meet people through the website and go out and party than stay at home on a Friday night reading other people’s profiles. And it’s surprising, but we have actually received far less complaints about stalking than we otherwise would have expected.”
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“To a certain extent, the website is unfortunate because it oversimplifies things. Everybody’s concept of having a friend is different. It can definitely blur the relationships that exist between people. But in the end, I think that Facebook can only reinforce preexisting communities.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exclusive Interview With Mark Zuckerberg" (Nov. 30, 2004)
“I think that some decisions that we made early on to localize the website and keep it separate for each college on the network kept it really useful, because people could only see people from their local college and friends outside. That made it so people were comfortable sharing information that they probably wouldn't otherwise, which made it useful in the long term for people to look up information about other people on the site.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bambi Francisco interviews Mark Zuckerberg in 2005
“Understanding who you serve is always a very important problem, and it only gets harder the more people that you serve. We try to pay a lot of attention to this by a combination of very rigorous quantitative and qualitative feedback. But if you’re serving 1.2 billion people, it’s very hard.”
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“Is Connectivity A Human Right? For almost ten years, Facebook has been on a mission to make the world more open and connected. For us, that means the entire world — not just the richest, most developed countries. We’ve made good progress, and today we connect more than 1.15 billion people through Facebook each month.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Is Connectivity A Human Right? article" (21 Aug 2013)
“My goal was never to make Facebook cool.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg First Public Q&A !, YouTube, 6 November 2014 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Why I wear the same T-shirt every day, The Telegraph (7 November 2014)
“I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Why I wear the same T-shirt every day, The Telegraph, 7 November 2014
“I think the reality is that writing code and building a product and then building a company actually is not a glamorous enough thing to make a movie about”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mark Zuckerberg Says The Social Network Was "Hurtful," Parts Were "Made Up" (November 7, 2014)
“We were just building stuff 'cause we thought it was cool. I do remember having these specific conversations with my friends where we thought, you know, someone is gonna build this. Someone is gonna build something that makes it so that people can stay connected with their friends and their family, but no way would we be the ones who were contributing to, kinda, leading the whole Internet in this direction.”
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“It takes courage to choose hope over fear. As I look around the world, I’m starting to see people and nations turning inward, against the idea of a connected world and a global community. The path forward is to bring people together, not push them apart. I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others’. I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases even for cutting access to the internet.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: Zuckerberg's speech during Facebook's F8 developers event on 12 April 2016, developers.facebook.com
“I don’t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. That’s not what we stand for.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted: "Read Mark Zuckerberg’s full remarks on Russian ads that impacted the 2016 elections", CNBC (Sep 21 2017)
“If you want to build a service which is not just serving rich people, then you need to have something that people can afford. ... At Facebook, we are squarely in the camp of the companies that work hard to charge you less ... I think it's important that we don't all get Stockholm syndrome and let the companies that work hard to charge you more convince you that they actually care more about you.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted: Mark Zuckerberg calls Tim Cook's comments on Facebook 'extremely glib' , The Verge, 2 April 2018
“I want make sure that our products are used for good. At the end of the day, other people blaming us or not is actually not the thing that matters to me. It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with as quoted in Zuckerberg: The Recode interview (July 18, 2018), .
“Giving people a voice on the one hand, and keeping the community and people safe on the other hand. Our bias tends to be to want to give people a voice and let people express a wide range of opinions. I don’t think that’s a liberal or conservative thing; those are the words in the U.S.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with as quoted in Zuckerberg: The Recode interview (July 18, 2018), .
“Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation. And that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.”
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“The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' ... Unless I feel like I'm working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I'm not going to feel good about how I'm spending my time.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Senator, we run ads.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zuckerberg's reply when asked by Orrin Hatch how it was possible to run a business with no charge to its users. Quoted in "ZUCK GRILLING Mark Zuckerberg tells Congress Facebook is in an ‘arms race with Russian trolls’ w…
“Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people worked to put a man on the moon – including that janitor. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio. Millions of more people built the Hoover dam and other great projects. These projects didn’t just provide purpose for the people doing those jobs, they gave our whole country a sense of pride that we could do great things.”
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“The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people with seeds of good ideas from getting started.”
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“Every generation expands its definition of equality. Previous generations fought for the vote and civil rights. They had the New Deal and Great Society. Now it’s our time to define a new social contract for our generation.”
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“We understand the great arc of human history bends towards people coming together in ever greater numbers — from tribes to cities to nations — to achieve things we couldn’t on our own.”
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“Change starts local. Even global changes start small — with people like us. In our generation, the struggle of whether we connect more, whether we achieve our biggest opportunities, comes down to this — your ability to build communities and create a world where every single person has a sense of purpose.”
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“I think the ability to be immersed and feel present with the people around you or the people who you care about is, from my perspective, clearly the next frontier.[on the metaverse]”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #398 - Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse", on the Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (28 September 2023)
“I'm really focused on open source, which is, I'm not sure exactly where it would fit on the continuum, but my theory of this is that what you want to prevent is one organization from getting way more advanced and powerful than everyone else.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mark Zuckerberg talks Apple vs. Meta Headset Wars, AI Innovations & Raising Cattle", on Morning Brew Daily, found on DeepCast (16 February 2024)
“Everything I say leaks.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio, 404 Media (30 January 2025)
“[Failed to answer a "video call" on a pair of glasses.] Uh-oh. That’s too bad. I don’t know what to tell you guys. It’s really live. That’s how we prove it’s live.”
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Recorded in: Almost Everything Went Wrong in Zuckerberg’s Meta Connect Keynote. Why His Awkward Response Was a Huge Win. Inc. (Sept 20, 2025)
“I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong. It’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent. I just think, as abhorrent as some of those examples are, I think the reality is also that I get things wrong when I speak publicly. I’m sure you do. I’m sure a lot of leaders and public figures we respect do too, and I just don’t think that it is the right thing to say, “We’re going to take someone off the platform if they get things wrong, even multiple times.” What we will do is we’ll say, “Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.” But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in .”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with as quoted in Zuckerberg: The Recode interview (July 18, 2018), .
“I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that. Our goal with fake news is not to prevent anyone from saying something untrue — but to stop fake news and misinformation spreading across our services. If something is spreading and is rated false by , it would lose the vast majority of its distribution in News Feed. And of course if a post crossed line into advocating for violence or hate against a particular group, it would be removed. These issues are very challenging but I believe that often the best way to fight offensive bad speech is with good speech.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mark Zuckerberg clarifies: ‘I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.’ (July 18, 2018) by , .