Yuri Milner

“Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.”

“I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.”

“Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.”

“The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.”

“We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.”

“My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.”

“Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.”

“Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.”

“Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.”

“Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.”

“We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.”

“The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.”

“There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.”

“The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.”

“It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.”

“I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.”

“Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.”

“There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.”

“It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.”

“Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.”