It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told them. “It looks too editorialized. Google products are machine-driven. They’re created by machines. And that is what makes us powerful. That’s what makes our products great.

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Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)

If I was a designer in that meeting, I’d probably quit right then and there.