Thank you for saying this. It&#x27;s so easy to criticise, judge and unfairly extrapolate based on what other people seem to have said or done according to a small, out of context quote, picture, video, etc. It&#x27;s incredibly unfair and hypocritical to do so.<p>We all need to just admit, as you&#x27;ve done, that we all say and do things all the time which would paint us in a very bad light if taken in the wrong context. As an obvious example, there are things that everyone says to friends that they&#x27;d never dream of saying to their boss, or parents, or their kids&#x27; teacher, or other friends for that matter.<p>Judging Mark Zuckerberg based on this quote is exactly like that. He&#x27;s not addressing an audience, he&#x27;s not giving a considered summary of his world view or philosophy. Rather he&#x27;s almost certainly joking with a friend, simply saying something abrasive just to give an impression of being confident or alpha etc, the way people sometimes do when they&#x27;re joking- especially young, relatively unconfident people. We&#x27;ve all done that at some point.<p>I&#x27;m 100% certain if his mother had walked into the room immediately after he&#x27;d said this and said &#x27;Mark! Is that what you really think, that all your classmates are.. what did you call them.. dumb fucks?&#x27; he would have apologised profusely and corrected himself, clarifying that he was simply joking and said a silly thing in the heat of the moment. Like all teenagers do. Like all humans do.