Marissa Mayer

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.

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It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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Quotes by Marissa Mayer