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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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Marissa Mayer
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 30
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Wausau
Wisconsin
Marissa Ann Mayer
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To me, the future is personalization .
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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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Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
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I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.
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I like to get myself in over my head.
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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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Creativity thrives best when constrained.
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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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I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
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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 pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
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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 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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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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For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.
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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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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 don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
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