Marc Andreessen – Quotes Crazy

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

Todays stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. – Marc Andreessen

Todays 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

If youre the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. Peoples lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. Its a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. – Marc Andreessen

If I want to get work done, thats usually about 3 in the morning. – Marc Andreessen

I know where Im putting my money. – Marc Andreessen

I need more raw experience. Ive read and watched a lot of things, but I havent done a lot of things. – Marc Andreessen

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers dont have to be that good to be much better. – Marc Andreessen

People are so bad at driving cars that computers dont have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, youre like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. – Marc Andreessen

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity thats far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before. – Marc Andreessen

If youre unhappy, you should change what youre doing. – Marc Andreessen

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust – it has a business model that either works or it doesnt. – Marc Andreessen

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. – Marc Andreessen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. – Marc Andreessen

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt. – Marc Andreessen

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

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. – Marc Andreessen

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

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

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