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
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
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
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
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. – Justin Cronin