Marissa Mayer Quotes
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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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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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I was Google's first woman engineer.
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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 really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
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I'm a geek.
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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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It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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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 think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.
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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
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I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
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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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You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
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Search is an unsolved problem.
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Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
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My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.
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For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
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What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.
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I don't need much sleep.