The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.

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.

If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you're doing and go fix it.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

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

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.