Marissa Mayer Quotes
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I like to get myself in over my head.
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I was at Google. And if you looked at Tumblr and Yahoo!, you know when you look at a map and you can see the way that South America and Africa used to fit together, I sort of joked that as we got to know Tumblr we were like we kind of felt like those continents, like our users were older, their users were younger.
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I really love color.
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I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.
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I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.
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For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
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I was Google's first woman engineer.
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There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.
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David Karp is just incredibly special. I like to think that I’m good at empathy, but I will say that David Karp is just incredibly empathetic and really in tune with the community of people that he has, that are contributing and creating on Tumblr.
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Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.
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I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.
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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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I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.
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I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
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Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
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It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
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Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.
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Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
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The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
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Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.
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Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.