All Quotes

Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online - and it's going to make a huge difference to Causes. You are building a monument to yourself and the things that are important to you.
‐‐ Joe Green

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintance' list.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
‐‐ Garrett Camp

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
‐‐ Jeff Weiner

Facebook is my life.
‐‐ Hailee Steinfeld

Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.
‐‐ Markus Persson

Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.
‐‐ Clay Shirky

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
‐‐ Elon Musk

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.
‐‐ Max Levchin

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
‐‐ Sean Parker

Facebook is teachable. If you hide items, you'll see fewer of those kinds of items in the future. Like more items, and you'll see more of those in the future.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

Facebook is the social graph with the organizing principle around your friends and your social life. LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function. At Chegg, we are building a student graph centered around you, as a student.
‐‐ Dan Rosensweig

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.
‐‐ Billy Eichner

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.
‐‐ Sean Parker

Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'
‐‐ Bridget Kelly

Facebook refuses to let Google index or display content from its site. Facebook has partnered with Bing to make its results more social. Is Facebook acting to leverage its dominance in social towards a dominance in search?
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Facebook's campus has a lot of creative spaces: an analogue print shop, a candy store. It's a dynamic place and one of the best environments I've been in, period.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

Facebook's data trove is enviable, and its moves into nearly every aspect of our lives - from payment to media, will create even more of it. The company also has created a huge base of developers for its platform, but the ecosystem is incomplete compared to vertically integrated OSes like iOS, Mac or Windows.
‐‐ John Battelle

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas

Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.
‐‐ Barry Diller

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

Facebook, Twitter and Google have all opened offices in Brazil, recognizing the importance of localizing their products and customer service efforts.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It's pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact.
‐‐ Dustin Moskovitz

Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.
‐‐ Dustin Moskovitz

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.
‐‐ Dustin Moskovitz

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.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.
‐‐ Eduardo Saverin

Faced with a deep recession, some say the answer is to expand the role of government.
‐‐ Rick Scott

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.
‐‐ Sendhil Mullainathan

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith