David Filo Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

We operate in many countries, in many jurisdictions in the world. As part of that, for the sake of the employees working in those areas, we have to abide by the laws.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

What I didn't really expect getting into it was probably that it would require so much immediate attention.

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