David Filo Quotes & Sayings

We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry. — David Filo

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing. — David Filo

People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives. — David Filo

The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems.
However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on. — David Filo

What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that. — David Filo

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all. — David Filo

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search. — David Filo

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board. — David Filo

Online advertising is display plus search. — David Filo

Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose - to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you. — David Filo

Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access. — David Filo

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation. — David Filo

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers. — David Filo

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees. — David Filo

Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful. — David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system. — David Filo

First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it. — David Filo

We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in. — David Filo