Marissa Mayer Quotes
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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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For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
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I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
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I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
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It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
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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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I'm a geek.
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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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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 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 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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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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Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
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Search is an unsolved problem.
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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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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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For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
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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 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 pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
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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.