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

Marissa Mayer

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Marissa Mayer
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 30
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Wausau
Wisconsin
Marissa Ann Mayer
Reality
Excuse
Imagination
Poor

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Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.
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Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.
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If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
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What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
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Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.
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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.
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I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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