Filo Quotes

#1. One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

Dan Rosensweig

#2. I wondered if could I ride Filo to another island.

Aneko Yusagi

#3. 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

#4. I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

David Filo

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

David Filo

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

David Filo

#9. I'm the granddaddy of this side. I'm the oldest person playing in the team, so I've got a mentoring role. I've been around the tracks and achieved a few things. I try to make sure that the younger players reach their full potential, and stay on the right track.

Filo Tiatia

#10. If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely, but the moment someone decides to release the shutter, it is an editorial statement.

John Filo

#11. My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

Filo Tiatia

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

David Filo

#13. At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.

Filo Tiatia

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

David Filo

#17. We have nutritionists to advise us on what to eat, in terms of our protein and carbohydrate intake. It's really important that you get a good balance.

Filo Tiatia

#18. I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)

John Filo

#19. When you're not playing your head can drop, and you can get a bit negative. I try to tell them that there are a lot of things they can't control, selection being one of them, and that they should just try to stay positive.

Filo Tiatia

#20. 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

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

David Filo

#22. You've got to be dedicated to train as hard as you can, for as long as you can, because in any sport, and especially this environment, there's a lot of contact. It's all about conditioning and good preparation to keep your body in the best condition possible to play games.

Filo Tiatia

#23. 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

#24. Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

David Filo

#25. Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

David Filo

#26. One of the highlights of my career was playing first class rugby for my province, which was Wellington. Another highlight was playing first class rugby with my brothers. Not many brothers get to do that. I can't explain what it felt like to be out there, playing with them. It was a great feeling.

Filo Tiatia

#27. Online advertising is display plus search.

David Filo

#28. Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

Filo Tiatia

#29. 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

#30. The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you can't attain those goals, maybe they're not realistic. At this level only a small percentage of players make it, so you've really got to strive to get what you want.

Filo Tiatia