Marc Andreessen Quotes


The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box. Marc Andreessen Box 109
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. Marc Andreessen Wisdom 98
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies. Marc Andreessen Work 90
Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot. Marc Andreessen Cloud 86
In short, software is eating the world. Marc Andreessen Eating 85
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. Marc Andreessen Business 81
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. Marc Andreessen Technology 80
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed. Marc Andreessen Home 80
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. Marc Andreessen Broad 78
People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. Marc Andreessen Computer 77
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later. Marc Andreessen Costs 75
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day. Marc Andreessen Power 75
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. Marc Andreessen business 74
The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient. Marc Andreessen Building 73
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. Marc Andreessen Movies 71
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones. Marc Andreessen Consumers 67
I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy. Marc Andreessen Work 67
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. Marc Andreessen Technology 63
A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay. Marc Andreessen Activity 62
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing. Marc Andreessen Change 62
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. Marc Andreessen Application 60
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Marc Andreessen Technology 59
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt. Marc Andreessen Technology 57
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. Marc Andreessen Cases 53
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Marc Andreessen Computer 49
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. Marc Andreessen Education 48
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. Marc Andreessen Billion 48
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. Marc Andreessen Car 47
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened. Marc Andreessen Anything 47
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. Marc Andreessen Assume 46
If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning. Marc Andreessen Work 46
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. Marc Andreessen Car 44
We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets. Marc Andreessen Best 42
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times. Marc Andreessen Technology 41
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. Marc Andreessen Dozens 39
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things. Marc Andreessen Experience 39
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people. Marc Andreessen Billion 38
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie. Marc Andreessen Born 34
I know where I'm putting my money. Marc Andreessen Money 27
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. Marc Andreessen Business 26
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition. Marc Andreessen Power 25
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly. Marc Andreessen change 24
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. Marc Andreessen Employees 21

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