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title: "2 Applications Quotes By Marc Andreessen"
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> [Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/organizations-spend-hundreds-of-hours-and-hundreds-of-thousands-of/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/marc-andreessen-2948_also_organizations-spend-hundreds-of-hours-an_2432251.png)

> [People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/people-tend-to-think-of-the-web-as-a-way-to-get-information-or-2/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

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## More by Marc Andreessen

> [I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/i-m-really-excited-about-anything-that-is-able-to-address-the-really/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/one-of-the-big-first-computers-was-called-sage-which-was-a-missile/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/it-was-a-joke-okay-if-we-thought-it-would-actually-be-used-we-wouldn/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/today-s-leading-real-world-retailer-wal-mart-uses-software-to-power/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/smart-tech-investor-thinks-about-a-future-product-roadmap-b-bottoms/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/technology-is-like-water-it-wants-to-find-its-level-so-if-you-hook-up/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/almost-every-dot-com-idea-from-1999-that-failed-will-succeed/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/google-is-working-on-self-driving-cars-and-they-seem-to-work-people/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/practically-everyone-is-going-to-have-a-general-purpose-computer-in/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/you-know-magic-markets-don-t-appear-all-the-time-so-you-take/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/over-the-next-10-years-i-expect-many-more-industries-to-be-disrupted/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/where-i-grew-up-we-had-the-three-tv-networks-maybe-two-radio-stations/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/ten-to-20-years-out-driving-your-car-will-be-viewed-as-equivalently/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/tech-stocks-are-trading-at-a-30-year-low-when-compared-to-the/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

> [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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-andreessen/in-the-startup-world-you-re-either-a-genius-or-an-idiot-you-re-never/)

[Marc Andreessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-andreessen/)

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