So if you had a delay that would break that. Mark Zuckerberg More Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg More Quotes From Mark Zuckerberg 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. Mark Zuckerberg issues country thinking 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. Mark Zuckerberg cities europe interesting 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. Mark Zuckerberg smartphones would-be years 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. Mark Zuckerberg people way years 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. Mark Zuckerberg phones reading book 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. Mark Zuckerberg cost real firsts The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people. Mark Zuckerberg community use people If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation. Mark Zuckerberg freedom-of-speech law people We have a pretty ambitious goal for the world. What we think will make the Web better. What we think will make all these businesses that integrate with us run more effectively. I think if we stay focused on doing that, that's really the main thing that we need to do. Mark Zuckerberg goal running thinking Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I'm really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this. Mark Zuckerberg company glad can-do The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined. Mark Zuckerberg people world firsts Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can. Mark Zuckerberg our-generation believe country When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. Mark Zuckerberg communication opportunity jobs You hear these stories about people who take apart their radio and put it back. Or just learn a lot from taking it apart. But I wasn't as into that stuff as I was just into how computer programs work. Mark Zuckerberg radio stories people There have been misperceptions that we're trying to make all the information open on Facebook, and that's completely false. There are big buckets of information that we recommend that you share with only your friends privately. Then some of the more basic information, we recommend that that's visible to everyone. Mark Zuckerberg buckets information trying Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership. Mark Zuckerberg media government people When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before. Mark Zuckerberg communication giving people If people want change, then they will find a way to get that change. So, whatever technology they may or may not have used was neither a necessary nor sufficient case for getting to the outcome that they got to, but having people who wanted change was. Mark Zuckerberg technology may people Across the board we have a responsibility to not just build tools but to make sure that they're used for good, it will take some time to work through all the changes, but I'm committed to getting this right. Mark Zuckerberg health-news I expect that this is going to be a very tough year. Mark Zuckerberg politics
