The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape,… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings.… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce.… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce.… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
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… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it! — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
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 — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
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… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
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… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
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… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
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 — Marc Andreessen Copy Share
