Marissa Mayer Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was Google's first woman engineer.

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.’

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

To me, the future is personalization .

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.

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