Quotes from Marissa Mayer

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.

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.

I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

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.

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

Burnout is about resentment. Preventing it is about knowing yourself well enough to know what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

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.

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

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.

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.