An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. – 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
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
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
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle