Marissa Mayer Quotes

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Marissa Mayer

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : May 30, 1975

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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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

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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't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

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When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

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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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With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

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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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Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

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I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

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I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.

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Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.

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I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

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I've always liked simplicity.

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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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I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.

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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 really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

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