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

You hear these stories about people who take apart their radio and put it back. Or just learn a lot from taking it apart. But I wasn't as into that stuff as I was just into how computer programs work.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

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.