Marissa Mayer Thinking Quotations

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.'

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

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

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

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.

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.

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

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

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

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 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.

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.

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

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.

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

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.'

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.