I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants – and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.
That’s how we’re going to stay innovative. We’re going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, ‘I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.’
You have to ruthlessly prioritize.
With data collection, ‘the sooner the better’ is always the best answer.
This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: ‘We know you said it was impossible, but we’re going to do this, this, and that to get us there.’
Straight lines don’t exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.
I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.
Vince Lombardi says, you know, in my life there are three things: God, family, and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it’s God, family, and Yahoo, in that order.
I think that for me, it’s God, family and Yahoo – in that order.
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don’t think so.
Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.
We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble.
To me, speed is really about convenience.
There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there’s more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.
What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don’t.
For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.
Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.