Quotes By Marissa Mayer

I don't need much sleep.

Search is an unsolved problem.

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.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

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

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

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.

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

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

I like to get myself in over my head.

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

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

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.

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

Good students are good at all things.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To me, speed is really about convenience.

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

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

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

I really love color.

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.

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