The Social Network (2010) quotes

Director
David Fincher.

Cast
Jesse Eisenberg.
Andrew Garfield.
Justin Timberlake.

Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.

18,000 dollars?
– Gretchen
Yes.
– Eduardo Saverin
In addition to the $1,000 you’d already put up?
– Gretchen
Yes.
– Eduardo Saverin
A total of $19,000 now?
– Gretchen
Yes.
– Eduardo Saverin
Hang on.
– Mark Zuckerberg
I’m just checking your math on that. Yes, I got the same thing.
– Mark Zuckerberg

You know, you really don’t need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.
– Mark Zuckerberg

You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying so hard to be.
– Marylin Delpy

Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
– Gage
No.
– Mark Zuckerberg
Do you think I deserve it?
– Gage
What?
– Mark Zuckerberg
Do you think I deserve your full attention?
– Gage
I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don’t want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
– Mark Zuckerberg
Okay – no. You don’t think I deserve your attention.
– Gage
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try – but there’s no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention – you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.
– Mark Zuckerberg
Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
– Mark Zuckerberg

What, do you want to hire an IP lawyer and sue him?
– Cameron Winklevoss
No, I want to hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of him with a hammer!
– Divya Narendra
We don’t even have to do that.
– Tyler Winklevoss
That’s right.
– Cameron Winklevoss
We can do that ourselves. I’m 6’5″, 220, and there’s two of me.
– Tyler Winklevoss

As for any charges stemming from the breach of security, I believe I deserve some recognition from this board.
– Mark Zuckerberg
I’m sorry?
– Ad Board Chairwoman
Yes?
– Mark Zuckerberg
I don’t understand.
– Ad Board Chairwoman
Which part?
– Mark Zuckerberg

We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re going to live on the internet!
– Sean Parker

Everybody on campus was using it. “Facebook me” was the common expression after two weeks. And Mark was the biggest thing on a campus that included 19 Nobel laureates, 15 Pulitzer prize winners, 2 future Olympians and a movie star.
– Divya Narendra
Who’s the movie star?
– Sy
Does it matter?
– Divya Narendra

Mark!
– Eduardo Saverin
He’s wired in.
– Sean Parker
I’m sorry?
– Eduardo Saverin
He’s wired in.
– Sean Parker
What about now? Are you wired in now?
– Eduardo Saverin

Ma’am, I know you’ve done your homework and so you know that money isn’t a big part of my life, but at the moment I could buy Mt. Auburn Street, take the Phoenix Club, and turn it into my ping-pong room.
– Mark Zuckerberg

You know, I could swear he was looking at you when he said ‘The next Bill Gates could be right in this room’.
– Bob
I… I doubt it.
– Mark Zuckerberg
I showed up late, I don’t even know who the speaker was.
– Bob
It was Bill Gates.
– Mark Zuckerberg
Shit, that makes sense.
– Bob

You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.
– Erica Albright