Mark Zuckerberg

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.