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Marissa Mayer is an American engineer and businesswoman, best known for her role as the CEO of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She has a background in computer science and has made significant contributions to the tech industry.

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Famous Marissa Mayer Quotes

“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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“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.”

“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.”

“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.”

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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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“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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“I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.”

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“I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.”

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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 always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.”

“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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“I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.”

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“There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.”

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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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“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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“Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.”

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“I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.”

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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 think the most interesting thing is what happens next.”

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Born: May 30, 1975
Known for: Engineer
Quotes: 89

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