Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Good students are good at all things.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'