For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

I think it’s very comforting for people to put me in a box. ‘Oh, she’s a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.’

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.

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

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

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.