Quotes By Marissa Mayer

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

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.

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

I like to get myself in over my head.

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

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

Good students are good at all things.

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

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.

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

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 was Google's first woman engineer.

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

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.

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.

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

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

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.

I really love color.

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

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.