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When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

- Marissa Mayer

You, Need, Innovate, Collaboration

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Sometimes, Capable, I Think, Militant

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Other, Before, Built, Sites

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

- Marissa Mayer

Advertising, Google, Some, Sites

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Think, Use, About, How Many Times

Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'

- Marissa Mayer

Good, Very, Confuse, Eric

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Think, I Think, Given, Compute

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.

- Marissa Mayer

I Think, Very, Perfectly, Striking

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

- Marissa Mayer

Computers, Think, Imagine, Thick

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

- Marissa Mayer

Think, Like, I Think, Kinship

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

- Marissa Mayer

Access, Private, I Think, Personal Information

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

- Marissa Mayer

Business, Product, Side, Fusion

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

- Marissa Mayer

Shy, Code, Set, Technology Companies

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Think, Next, Always, Technology Companies

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Giving Up, About, Makes, Resentful

The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.

- Marissa Mayer

Content, Mail, Phones, Yahoo

Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.

- Marissa Mayer

Over, Been, Ad, Yahoo

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

- Marissa Mayer

Every Day, Brands, Lives, Entrepreneurship

Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.

- Marissa Mayer

Run, Other, Out, Executing

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

- Marissa Mayer

Difference, Aptitude, Verbal, Programmers

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Best, Helping, About, Retaining

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

- Marissa Mayer

Pace, Four, Months, Vacation

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

- Marissa Mayer

Love, Details, Matter, Geeks

I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.

- Marissa Mayer

Love, Strong, Lucky, Divisible

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

- Marissa Mayer

Meant, Which, Took, Programming

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

- Marissa Mayer

Gender, Think, I Think, Industries

I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.

- Marissa Mayer

Deep, Got, Classes, Stanford

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Reason, Through, Before, Stanford

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.

- Marissa Mayer

Week, Very, Though, Stanford

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

Through, I Can, I Think, Wow

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