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Mark Zuckerberg, born on May 14, 1984, is a renowned programmer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, CEO of Facebook, and the founder and CEO of Meta Platforms. Known for his innovation and leadership in the internet industry, Zuckerberg's achievements have changed the lives of billions around the world.

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“Facebook is inherently viral.”

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“There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.”

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“Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.”

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“Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.”

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“In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.”

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“Berlin definitely has one of the most vibrant of the startup scenes that I have seen. Not really just across Europe, but across the whole world in terms of cities. It's an interesting dynamic.”

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“Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.”

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“If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.”

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“I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.”

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“When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire.”

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“People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.”

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“Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.”

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“It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn't get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can't imagine it would be much faster for VR.”

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“VR is a very intense visual experience and having the most powerful PC is the only way to deliver certain experiences.”

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“People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.”

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“In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.”

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“I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.”

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“Critics worry that if we spend time paying attention to that new kind of media or technology instead of talking to each other that that is somehow isolating. But humans are fundamentally social. So I think in reality, if a technology doesn't actually help us socially understand each other better, it isn't going to catch on and succeed.”

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“You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said 'why should you read when you could talk to other people?' The point of reading is that you get to deeply immerse yourself in a person's perspective. Right? Same thing with newspapers or phones or TVs. Soon it will be VR, I bet.”

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“If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.”

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“I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.”

Humans Built Machines Something Better

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“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.”

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“People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.”

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“If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.”

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“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.”

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“If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you're doing and go fix it.”

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“I don't want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.”

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“Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.”

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“When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.”

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“It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.”

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“I actually remember very specifically the night that I launched Facebook at Harvard. I used to go out to get pizza with a friend who I did all my computer science homework with. And I remember talking to him and saying I am so happy we have this at Harvard because now our community can be connected but one day someone is going to build this for the world.”

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“The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.”

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“Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.”

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“While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.”

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“There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.”

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“Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook”

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“I think that the tax situation needs to be worked out between the countries themselves.”

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“In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance that conforms to a set of international standards that all governments accept.”

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“With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.”

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

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“There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't even afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business. We all know you don't get successful just by having a good idea or working hard. You get successful by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up, instead of having the time to learn how to code. If I didn't know that I was gonna be fine if Facebook didn't work out, then I wouldn't be standing up here today. And if we're honest, we all know how much luck we've had.”

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“We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find the meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.”

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“In a recent survive of Millennials around the world asking what most defines our identity, the most popular wasn't nationality, ethnicity or religion. It was "citizen of the world." That's a big deal. Every generation expands the circle of people we consider one of us. And in our generation, that now includes the whole world. This is the struggle of our time. The forces of freedom, openness, and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism, and nationalism - forces for the flow of knowledge, trade, and immigration, against those who would slow them down.”

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“We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."”

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“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.”

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“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.”

People World Giving Share Transparent

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Born: May 14, 1984
Known for: Programmer
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