The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.

I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.