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I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

Pick something and make it great.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

Good students are good at all things.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

Search is an unsolved problem.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.

To me, speed is really about convenience.

Talent is what drives technology companies,

To me, the future is personalization .

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

I want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.

The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech,

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

I really love color.

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

I was Google's first woman engineer.

I don't need much sleep.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

I've always liked simplicity.

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

I like to get myself in over my head.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

I'm not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous.