David Filo quotes:

Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

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.

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

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.

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

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.

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

Online advertising is display plus search.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

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.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

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.

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.