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" Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it. "

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" It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work! "

" In every organization, there are many people, from senior leaders to first-time managers, who have the power to elevate women in the workplace. I wouldn't be in the position I'm in today without several key people in power believing in me and giving me a chance to succeed. "

" One of the things that I'm trying to do is use the position that I'm in... to encourage the next generation of girls to think about the Internet as a career opportunity. "

" Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue. "

" Don't overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now. "

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" I've seen all of these decisions that have been made by all these great leaders who have been part of Google, and this has been an opportunity for me when I'm running YouTube, is to be able to take advantage of all of those memories. "

" After my kids go to bed, I check email. It's about having that balance. "

" I've been, like, the mom of Google. "

" I think we have to recognize as an industry that users have a lot more choices and can click away to a lot more media. As a result, the advertising we create really needs to be something users want to see. "

" I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use. "

" My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it. "

" At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business. "

" I think I've always been able to see what's coming, and when I was joining Google, people always said, 'Why are you joining this company?' It was so small at the time. I could see the importance of Google. I could see the way it was going to grow; it was going to become a big company. "

" My daughter was 10 years old when she told me she hated computers. As someone who has spent her career helping build one of the largest tech companies in the world, I was in shock. Suddenly an issue I faced repeatedly at work - the lack of women in tech - hit squarely at home. "

" Suddenly, when you have kids, you become responsible for these other people - like if something's not working out at school. I learned to speak out. "

" On YouTube, women are not just users; they're creators. They're learning about business and technology, and having a voice. "

" If a third of Americans' time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It's not proportional. "

" YouTube has so much great content. And it really has something for everybody. And people come up to me all the time and talk to me about how YouTube has changed their life, how they've been able to learn something they didn't think they could learn. "

" I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from. "

" I think video advertising is a hugely compelling medium. "

" Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write. "

" If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school. "

" My kids know I'm home every night for dinner. "

" Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came. "

" There are lots of people in the Silicon Valley who are interested in working at a fast-moving, dynamic company like Google. Not just my family members. "

" You see a lot of powerful women on the Internet, but I wish there were more. I think the Internet really could use a lot more women. "

" Paid leave is a not just a mother and child issue, it's a societal issue we have. "

" CEOs need to say, 'We're going to make sure this is a great environment for all types of people.' I was a beneficiary of that. I got support from the leaders of Google - all men. "

" In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things. "

" If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic, political, and social gains we have made over decades. "