The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.

Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.