Quotes from Marissa Mayer

Search is an unsolved problem.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

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

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.

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

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

Good students are good at all things.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

I really love color.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.

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.'

I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.

It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

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

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.