I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Good students are good at all things.

I like to get myself in over my head.

Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

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.