Marc Andreessen Quotes
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day
My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.
Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.
The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.
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.
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
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.
Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.
Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.
We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.
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.
The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.
Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.