Marissa Mayer Quotes
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Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
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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 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 had no idea how to eat sensibly.
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I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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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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Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
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Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
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I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
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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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It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.
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I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
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Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
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I refuse to be stereotyped.
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I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'
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With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.
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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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I don't need much sleep.
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The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be.
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I've always liked simplicity.
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Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
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I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
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I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.