I really believe that if you're going to accomplish whatever, anything, a lot of it is just being willing to push through and having the grit and determination to push through difficult situations.

I think it's worth grounding this conversation in the actual research that has been done on this which, by and large, finds that social media is not a large driver of polarization.

The heuristic that I always focused on... is that you should only hire someone to be on your team if you would be happy working for them in an alternate universe.

We're not a Democrat company or a Republican company; we're trying to make the best decisions we can to help people connect...

The real world is a combination of the virtual world and the physical world. But I think, over time, as we get more technology, the physical world is becoming less of a percent of the real world.

A lot of people think that the metaverse is about a place, but one definition of this is it's about a time when, basically, immersive digital worlds become the primary way that we that we live our lives and spend our time.

Sometimes, people draw this juxtaposition of, okay, there's the digital world and the real world; that's not actually how I think about it. I think that there's a physical world and a digital world, and the real world is actually both. And increasingly, I think, people will use these technologies to be able to be present in places that they physically can't be.

I sort of have this hiring heuristic at Meta, which is that I will only hire someone to work for me if I could see myself working for them.

Let’s constantly be doing something that can be doubted. Because if we’re not, then what are we doing? ... If it’s obvious to everyone that we’re going to be able to do each of the things that we’re working on, then I don’t feel like we’re making the most of what we need to do.

Everyone else is building, like, the one singular AI. You talk to ChatGPT, or you talk to Bard ... My view is that that they're going to be a lot of different AIs that people are going to want to engage with—just like you want to use a number of different apps for different things and you have relationships with different people in your life who fill different emotional roles for you.

I think the most important decision you're probably going to make if you're in college is who you surround yourself with, because you become like the people you surround yourself with.

Within our science portfolio, we've really been focused on what some people think is either an incredibly audacious goal or an inevitable goal. But I think about it as something that will happen if we sort of continue focusing on it, which is to be able to cure, prevent, or manage all disease by the end of the century.

I think most of the other big tech companies are building technology for you to interact with. What I care about is building technology to help people interact with each other.

If I'm doing something that feels too well-understood for too long, then I feel like I'm just being complacent.

At this point, I kind of feel like if people fully feel like they understand what we are as a company and what we're doing, then I'm not pushing it hard enough.

Most of the academic studies that I've seen actually show that social media use is correlated with lower polarization.

These AR glasses are going to be like your phone ... You will, I think, be able to, if you want, wear it for a lot of the day and interact with it very frequently.

I think that, at some level, whether 25% of people dislike you or 75% of people dislike you, your experience as a public figure is going to be that there's a lot of people who dislike you.

The real product that we want to eventually get to is this kind of full augmented reality product in a kind of stylish and comfortable normal glasses form factor.

Part of what I think is going to be great about the creator economy and the metaverse and all this stuff is this notion... that a lot more people in the future are going to get to work doing creative stuff than what I think today we would just consider traditional labor or service.