The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.
On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.
If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN.
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
