Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

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.

I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

I love Google. I was there for 13 years, and if you told me I'd be as happy anywhere else, I would've probably doubted it. But I am as happy, if not happier, at Yahoo.

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

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 really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

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.

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

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.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

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.

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.'

New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

I think it’s very comforting for people to put me in a box. ‘Oh, she’s a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.’

I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from.

Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

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