“I never wanted to run a company.To me a business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done. Mark Zuckerberg in The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick”

“This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service’s success was how often users returned.”

“He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.”

“For users, Facebook Connect offers what could turn into a universal Internet log-in. Over 80,000 websites use it in some fashion, as of February 2010, and 60 million Facebook members are actively employing it.”

“Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.”

“Mark has the most long-term perspective I’ve ever seen. This guy is uber uber uber on the long-term view.”

“But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It’s like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, ‘only the paranoid survive.”