Marissa mayer quotes

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

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.

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.

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as professional photographers when theres everything thats professional photographers. Certainly theres varying levels of skills but we didnt want to have a Flickr Pro anymore. We wanted everyone to have professional quality photo space and sharing.

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

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

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'

The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

My friend Andre said to me, 'You know, Marissa, you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself to pick the right choice, and I've gotta be honest: That's not what I see here. I see a bunch of good choices, and there's the one that you pick and make great.' I think that's one of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

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

I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Good students are good at all things.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

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.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

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

I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

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

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.

If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

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.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

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.

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

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

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

To me, the future is personalization .

To me, speed is really about convenience.

Talent is what drives technology companies.

I like to get myself in over my head.

Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.

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.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

I love Google. I was there for 13 years, and if you told me I'd be as happy anywhere else, I would've probably doubted it. But I am as happy, if not happier, at Yahoo.

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

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.

I’m not a pro, but I know enough to be dangerous.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

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.’

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

Search is an unsolved problem.

Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

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

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

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

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.

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

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

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

I've always liked simplicity.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

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.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.

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

New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

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

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

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.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.