Dustin Moskovitz Quotes

VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.

I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

It just so happened that I had this place called YouTube where everybody in the world could do exactly what they wanted to do and it's potentially one of the most exciting times I've discovered in the history of anything ever.

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn't even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.

I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Facebook has conquered much of the world.

It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I think the digital revolution and the opportunity for smaller brands to get big platforms now is fantastic for professional wrestlers and professional wrestling in general.

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

People said, 'MySpace is going to rule and dominate all Internet; all young people will live on MySpace.' Well, along comes Facebook. And, obviously, all the innovation that Apple is doing.

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.