I do not like the outcome of what happens with these things. But we have to follow the law.

We think small business in the US and other markets are very fragmented and a tremendous opportunity for a quasi-automated business model like we have to take advantage of.

This has huge potential because it does combine the user-participation model with the algorithm. It will take multiple years to play out.

We have to comply with the law.

I don’t like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that’s what we need to do.

[However, although Yahoo! is compelled to] push the envelope, … only 50 to 100 companies have broad enough appeal and are willing to put up enough money to do business with the portal sites.

Internally we say to people (employees of Yahoo!), ‘you always have other options,’

The relevance of search is still the Holy Grail for any search application,

The ‘Field of Dreams’ Internet–where the assumption was ‘If you build it, they will come’–is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most...

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody’s perspective, I think.

I think that it’s always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to...

The hopes on e-commerce and communications going forward is what we’re trying to capitalize on.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

If you look at what we’ve done in Japan…, we’ve built a great asset there.

I can’t clearly comment on that …, … I ‘ would say that we are talking to a lot of people and we are talking to all the major companies around the world.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn’t exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

We have always had a long-term commitment to China and even more so to the development of its Internet industry, We’re confident that Yahoo! is putting its resources behind the right management team, which operates...

one of the better products we’ve launched in a long time.

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local...

Now we’re seeing services and applications. This has been one of the promises the Internet has offered for a long time — the consumer can really be the programmer.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

We are all here in China that represents quite a lot of opportunities, not only on the business side, but also on the social side,

I have never seen so many people with cameras. It is kind of scary.

China is a key market for any Internet company. We think (the deal) will allow us to grow from a strong position to a dominant one.

We look at our users’ interests, without our users we don’t have business.

The biggest struggle was probably giving up something that we’d been doing for five or six years, doing our Ph.D.s and almost being there,

Terry has said he’s been very clear about the fact that the habits and the desires of the consumer are the common theme between his last career and his current career.

To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law. We don’t know what they want that information for, we’re not told what they look for....

It’s a huge opportunity for Yahoo to be closer to our user base without them having to fire up a browser.

The challenge for us is to build partnerships over time that will realize the benefits others are gaining through mergers and acquisitions.