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Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

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
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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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I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
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Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.
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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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I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
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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.
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Creativity thrives best when constrained.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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Talent is what drives technology companies.
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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
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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.
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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.’
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I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
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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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What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.
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With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.
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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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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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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.
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The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.
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