The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.

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

I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.

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.

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

We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."