Marissa Mayer Quotes
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I'm a geek.
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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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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 think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
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Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
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If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
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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 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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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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Search is an unsolved problem.
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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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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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I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
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When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.
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For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
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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 love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
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When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
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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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I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
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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.