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Marissa Mayer Quotes

To me, speed is really about convenience.

– Marissa Mayer

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn’t feeling challenged by it.

– Marissa Mayer

I didn’t want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

– Marissa Mayer

The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.

– Marissa Mayer

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

– Marissa Mayer

I don’t need much sleep.

– Marissa Mayer

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

– Marissa Mayer

I think that for me, it’s God, family and Yahoo – in that order.

– Marissa Mayer

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

– Marissa Mayer

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.’

– Marissa Mayer

The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it’s mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That’s Yahoo’s business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.

– Marissa Mayer

Search is an unsolved problem.

– Marissa Mayer

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

– Marissa Mayer

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.

– Marissa Mayer

The internet creates more of an appetite for media – it doesn’t replace physical books, radio or TV.

– Marissa Mayer

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.

– Marissa Mayer

I was Google’s first woman engineer.

– Marissa Mayer

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do – and the business side.

– Marissa Mayer

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.

– Marissa Mayer

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.

– Marissa Mayer

Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.

– Marissa Mayer

I didn’t set out to be at the top of technology companies. I’m just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

– Marissa Mayer

I’ve always liked simplicity.

– Marissa Mayer

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.

– Marissa Mayer

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.

– Marissa Mayer

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.

– Marissa Mayer

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

– Marissa Mayer

If you can find something that you’re really passionate about, whether you’re a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

– Marissa Mayer

Good students are good at all things.

– Marissa Mayer

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

– Marissa Mayer

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