Quotes By 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.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

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

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.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

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

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

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

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

I've always liked simplicity.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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