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    Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

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    Creativity thrives best when constrained.

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    Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

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    Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

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

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

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    For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

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    For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

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    Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

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    Good students are good at all things.

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    Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

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    I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

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    I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

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    I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

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    I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

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    If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

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    If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

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    If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

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    I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

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    I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

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    I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

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    I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

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    Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

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    I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

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    I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.

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    I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

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    I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

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

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    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.’

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    I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.

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    I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

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    I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

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    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.

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

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    I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

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

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    My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

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    New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

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    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.

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    People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

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    People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

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    Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

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    Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

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    Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.

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    Search is an unsolved problem.

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

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    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.

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    Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

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    Talent is what drives technology companies.

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    That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'