Marissa Mayer Quotes
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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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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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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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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 think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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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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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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I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
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I refuse to be stereotyped.
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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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I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
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I've always liked simplicity.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
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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 don't need much sleep.
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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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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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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 want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.
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Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
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I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
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I think I’ve always thought of culture as DNA. I don’t know a lot about genetics, but I understand some of it and I think that what you really want are the genes that are positive to hyper-express themselves in culture.