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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
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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 always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.
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The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.
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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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With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.
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For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
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To me, the future is personalization .
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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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Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
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Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
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I refuse to be stereotyped.
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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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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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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 like to get myself in over my head.
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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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I was Google's first woman engineer.
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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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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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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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