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.

We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.

It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.

If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.

At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.