Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.

The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.