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I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
Marissa Mayer
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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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I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
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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't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
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If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
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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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Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect 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 realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.
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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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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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New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.
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Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.
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Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.
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My friend Andre said to me, 'You know, Marissa, you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself to pick the right choice, and I've gotta be honest: That's not what I see here. I see a bunch of good choices, and there's the one that you pick and make great.' I think that's one of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten.
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Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.
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Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
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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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Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.
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The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
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You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
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I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.
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Creativity thrives best when constrained.
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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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Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.
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To me, the future is personalization .
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If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
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I refuse to be stereotyped.
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With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.
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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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It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
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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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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
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My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.
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I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
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That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'
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I was Google's first woman engineer.
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Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.
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People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.
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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 love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'
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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 that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
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The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.
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