Directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network is a gripping and sharply written drama that chronicles the meteoric rise of Facebook and its enigmatic founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Set against the backdrop of Harvard University and Silicon Valley, the film delves into themes of ambition, betrayal, genius, and the personal costs of success.

With a haunting score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and an Oscar-winning screenplay, the film captures the birth of a digital empire and the unraveling of friendships in its wake.

Here are the 10 best quotes from The Social Network:

1.

Gage (David Selby): Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): No.

Gage (David Selby): Do you think I deserve it?

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): What?

Gage (David Selby): Do you think I deserve your full attention?

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): 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.

Gage (David Selby): Okay – no. You don’t think I deserve your attention.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): 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.

Did I adequately answer your condescending question?

2.

Erica Albright (Rooney Mara): 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.

3.

Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield): Sorry! My Prada’s at the cleaners! Along with my hoodie and my ‘fuck you’ flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag!

4.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): 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.

5.

Marylin Delpy (Rashida Jones): You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying so hard to be.

6.

Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake): Drop the ‘The.’ Just ‘Facebook.’ It’s cleaner.

7.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): 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.

8.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): I went to my friend for the money because that’s who I wanted to be partners with. Eduardo was the president of the Harvard Investors Association, and he was also my best friend.

Gage (David Selby): Your best friend is suing you for six hundred million dollars.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): I didn’t know that, tell me more.

9.

Erica Albright (Rooney Mara): The Internet’s not written in pencil, Mark, it’s written in ink.

10.

Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg): Without money the site can’t function. Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don’t crash EVER! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominos go, don’t you get that? I am not going back to the Caribbean Night at AEPi!