Quotes by Marc Andreessen

“Most of the software ideas of the late 90s which people tried and failed on--customer relationship management, marketing analytics, supply chain management, B2B procurement--those ideas all made sense and had good business justifications. But the tech wasnt quite there. Many customers who bought early feel bitter. But at some point those things will hit the mainstream and work.”

“This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best possible time to start a company, if youre willing to build for the long-term.”

“I think its all really positive for the industry. It will force the industry to make the changes that are required to make the Internet viable in the long run.”

“The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women,”

“To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day.”

“Im looking forward to seeing what they do with these URLs. Hopefully theyll take advantage of them.”

“From there, we all benefit even if were not related to these apps, because theyre now online.”

“This is a consumer phenomenon and people will care about what it has to offer them. We are not the market going from here on out.”

“You cant determine whether to build a bridge by counting the number of swimmers. Consumers dont care about technology at the end of the day.”

“We have to try hard and liberate ourselves from assumptions.”

I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot.

There was a point in the late 90s where all the graduating M.B.A.s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

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.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

In short, software is eating the world.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I dont know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

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.

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.

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.

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. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, youre like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.