Marc Andreessen quotes - page 2

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one. (Marc Andreessen)
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people. View quote
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If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything. View quote
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If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing. View quote
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Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. View quote
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If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. View quote
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I enjoy not being a public company. View quote
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TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. View quote
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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 doesn't. View quote
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If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning. View quote
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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)
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box. View quote
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A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet. View quote
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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. View quote
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Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie. View quote
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Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed. View quote
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China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple. View quote
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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)
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones. View quote
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So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. View quote
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I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do. View quote
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The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. View quote
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