Mark Zuckerberg

We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don’t check in code anymore.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

The biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don’t want to be a master. When I’m learning something, I’m in my element.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities – they can do both.

Studying in countries like China isn’t only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It’s not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It’s also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It’s about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.