Marc Andreessen Quotes

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• There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at…
• A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
• A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It…
• Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
• The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
• 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…
• Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's…
• 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…
• I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.
• There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends…
• If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be…
• 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.
• People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line…
• 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 in…
• Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with…
• 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…
• People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the…
• 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…
• I enjoy not being a public company.

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