Quotes from David Filo

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.

Hire passionate employees.

Online advertising is display plus search.

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.

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.

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

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

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

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

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