Facebook Quotes

“toxic addictiveness... news feed and other "infinite scrolls" the worst offenders..”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“People were indeed comfortable with sharing, Zuckerberg told him. A third of his users, he said, share their cell-phone numbers on their profile page. “That’s evidence that they trust us.” Graham was startled at how emotionless and hesitant this kid was. At times, before he’d answer a question—even something that he must have been asked thousands of times, like what percentage of Harvard kids were on Thefacebook—he would fall silent, staring into the ether for thirty seconds or so. Does he not understand the question? Graham wondered. Did I offend him? Nonetheless, before the meeting was over, Graham became convinced that Thefacebook was the best business idea he’d heard in years, and told Zuckerberg and Parker that if they wanted an investor who was not a VC, the Post would be interested.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“Mark Pincus smelled the social-game opportunity first. He was the guy who, with Reid Hoffman, had been part of the angel investment that, in his words, was like winning lotto. In late 2006, Matt Cohler tipped him off that Facebook was going to launch a platform and was looking for entrepreneurs to come up with apps. We don’t want any money from you, he told Pincus. Just build cool stuff and we’ll expose you to our traffic.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“engineering comes down to two real principles: The first is that you think of every problem as a system. And every system can be better. No matter how good or bad it is, you can make anything better—”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“Even when zeroing in on privacy, they showboated.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“Mark Zuckerberg allegedly serving Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey an undercooked goat”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“there is something really optimistic and inspiring about waking up every day as if it's a new day, and not being defined in terms of who you were yesterday”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“if you're not the customer, you're the product”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“it is okay to make exceptions to the letter of the policy to maintain the spirit of the policy”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“sensational content that was hard to ignore, facebook rewarded them”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“growth. he said that if any feature didnt do that, he was not interested.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“subtle way of helping to identify a user's interests without the user conspicuously sharing them with facebook. (regarding the like button)”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“people are more voyeuristic than i would have thought”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“Well,” he said, “we think that companies suck.” Yahoo!’s president, Dan Rosensweig, broke the tension with a quip. “At Yahoo!, we like to think we suck less.” Everyone had a good laugh.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“But people did not warm to Beacon. Instead, they began thinking for the first time that this fun thing called Facebook was something that maybe they could not trust.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story

“Zuckerberg hadn’t approached Thefacebook that way. He was building something that he wanted for himself, and people were naturally flocking to it. That had been the story of the giants of tech—Apple, eBay, Yahoo!, Google.”
― Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story