If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor – the internet may be the best way to get access to health.
Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do.
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.
So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.
If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.
The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you’re refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.
Some of the best ideas throughout the company’s evolution have been from places all throughout the company whether it’s an engineer or someone on the customer support team. Just different areas around the company.
The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they’re doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.
Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.
In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.
Young people are just smarter.
There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.
Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.
Just because you can build a machine that is better than a person at something doesn’t mean that it is going to have the ability to learn new domains or connect different types of information or context to do superhuman things. This is critically important to appreciate.
It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.
Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
AI systems will enable doctors to diagnose diseases and treat people better, so blocking that progress is probably one of the worst things you can do for making the world better.