David Filo Quotes

United States, Businessman
April 20, 1966

David Robert Filo is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.

Also known as Programmer

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.

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- Important
- Search
I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

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- Proud

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

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

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- Innovation
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.

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- Good
- Great
- Important
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.

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- Money
- Done
- Search
Hire passionate employees.

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

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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.

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- True
- Environment
People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.

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- People
Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

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- Education
- Community
Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

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- Service
- Search
Online advertising is display plus search.

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- Search