Marissa Mayer Quotes
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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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It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
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Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
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If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
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I'm a geek.
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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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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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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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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
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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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I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
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For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
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Search is an unsolved problem.
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things.
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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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Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
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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 don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
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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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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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Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.