Zitat des Tages von Marissa Mayer:
I really love color.
What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
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.
Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.
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.
I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'
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.
If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
I've always liked simplicity.
Search is an unsolved problem.
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.
Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from.
The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
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.
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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.
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
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.
I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.
I refuse to be stereotyped.
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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.
Good students are good at all things.
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.
For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
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.
I was Google's first woman engineer.
I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
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.