Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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.
To me, speed is really about convenience.
I like to get myself in over my head.
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.
The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.
What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.
I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
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.'
I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
I was Google's first woman engineer.
Search is an unsolved problem.
I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.
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.
I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.
For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as professional photographers when theres everything thats professional photographers. Certainly theres varying levels of skills but we didnt want to have a Flickr Pro anymore. We wanted everyone to have professional quality photo space and sharing.
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.
