David Filo quotes
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“I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.”
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“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.”
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“We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 FiloSource : "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.
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“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 FiloSource : "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.
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“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
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Source : Chessville.com Article, October 31, 2010.
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“I was brought up by a really proud, supportive family, so I have that sort of grounding.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.”
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.”
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