All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.”
“You can't make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.”
“Answers to Correspondents”
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”
“Cited by: William E. Phipps, Mark Twain's Religion , Mercer University Press, 2003, p. 18 Richard Locke, Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels , Columbia University Press, p. 12”
“The Treaty With China”
“The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation”
“Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience”
“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm”
“Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near me belonged to the best families in the city. "A Curious Dream", in Mark Twain’s Sketches, Selected and Revised by the Author (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872) p. 308”
“Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. "A Mysterious Visit", Buffalo Express , 19 March 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old”
“I understood that some parts were still a little sketchy and I wanted some more time to think about whether or not this was really appropriate to release to the Harvard community.”
“Facemash Creator Survives Ad Board”
“Zuckersberg's Facemash (a variant of Am I Hot or Not? ), which ranked photos of students according to attractiveness, led to the possibility he might have to leave Harvard for a time or permanently. He was not sanctioned by the Administrative Board.”
“My goal is to not have a job. Making cool things is just something I love doing, and not having someone tell me what to do or a timeframe in which to do it is the luxury I am looking for in my life. Interview with Harvard's student newspaper, The Crimson, June 2004 , Business Insider”
“It is better to buy than compete .”
“'It's better to buy than compete': The FTC is using Mark Zuckerberg's own words against him”
“Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuckerberg: Just ask Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. Zuckerberg: I don't know why. Zuckerberg: They "trust me" Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks Instant messages sent by Zuckerberg during Facebook's early days, reported by Business Insider”
“I spend all of my time on your website and now I have less of a social life than I had before.”
“Exclusive Interview With Mark Zuckerberg”
“I think that some decisions that we made early on to localize the website and keep it separate for each college on the network kept it really useful, because people could only see people from their local college and friends outside. That made it so people were comfortable sharing information that they probably wouldn't otherwise, which made it useful in the long term for people to look up information about other people on the site. Bambi Francisco interviews Mark Zuckerberg in 2005”
“( Grundfragen der Philosophie: Ausgewählte”
“The desire to philosophize from the standpoint of standpointlessness, as a purportedly genuine and superior objectivity, is either childish, or, as is usually the case, disingenuous. The Essence of Truth, 1931”
“Transcendence constitutes selfhood. Essence of Ground”
“Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage. Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.”
“What is Metaphysics? (1929), p. 110”
“cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil .”
“What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities. Introduction to Metaphysics”
“This Europe , which in its ruinous blindness is forever on the point of cutting its own throat, lies today in a great pincers, squeezed between Russia on one side and America on the other. From a metaphysical point of view, Russia and America are the same: the same dreary technological frenzy, the same unrestricted organization of the average man...”