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

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Marissa Mayer
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 30
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Wausau
Wisconsin
Marissa Ann Mayer
Success
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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 that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
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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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Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
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I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
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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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Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.
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I refuse to be stereotyped.
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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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I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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I like to get myself in over my head.
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Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
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Creativity thrives best when constrained.
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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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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.
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Talent is what drives technology companies.
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You have to ruthlessly prioritize.
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