Ben Silbermann Quotes

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.

With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.

I would not have pretty much any of the good things in my life if it weren't for the Internet.

Any new thing that comes out with the ability to enhance our show or my ability to communicate with fans and give people more behind-the-scenes access, you know we'll be all over it.

A lot of people think technology is a solution, but it's really just a canvas for your work. It can make good things amazing and bad things terrible. Facebook allows you to have access to mass audience really quickly if you do creative really well.

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.

Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

In retrospect, I do think it's fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare.

The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.

Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

The Internet is amazing.

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