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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ↗

— John Mayer

#become #defined #failure #guitarist #hendrix

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am. ↗

— John Mayer

#being #believable #believe #comes #day

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment. ↗

— John Mayer

#becoming #completely #every #everything #front

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. ↗

— John Mayer

#compromises #famous #famous person #i #i think

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. ↗

— John Mayer

#clever #completely #forgot #i #i love

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

— Marissa Mayer

#could #i #imagine #my own #now

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

#always #because #companies #company #definitely

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.' ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#clothes #comforting #doing #electronics #fluffy

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

#amazing #appear #compute #getting #given

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

#because #comfort #comfort zone #day-to-day #giving