David Filo famous quotes

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.
-- David Filo

#Boards #Proud #Return

The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.
-- David Filo

#Inspirational #Causes #Reliability

We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.
-- David Filo

#Commitment #Want

First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.
-- David Filo

#People #Marketing #Add

We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.
-- David Filo

#Track #Growth #Way

Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.
-- David Filo

#People #Trying #Stuff

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.
-- David Filo

#Important #Information #Way

What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.
-- David Filo

#Jobs #Thinking #Creating

Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose—to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.
-- David Filo

#Years #Ideas #Twenties

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.

I was brought up by a really proud, supportive family, so I have that sort of grounding.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.