Marc AndreessenPeople who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. ✨ Jobs fight: Haves vs. the have-nots. Interview with Tim Mullaney, usatoday30.usatoda… ▶371Humanity
Marc AndreessenIn a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.362Reflection
Marc AndreessenInnovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.354Hope
Marc AndreessenGreat CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.321Death
Marc AndreessenMy 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 economy355Reflection
Marc AndreessenIt was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!301HumorThought
Marc AndreessenTech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.334Humanity
Marc AndreessenI don't waste time being depressed.378Time
Marc AndreessenCompanies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.334Reading
Marc AndreessenIn 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 $150,0… ▶357Time
Marc AndreessenYou only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both. ✨ The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When Th… ▶303LifeReading
Marc AndreessenIn short, software is eating the world358Time
Marc AndreessenToday's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies314Time
Marc AndreessenAn awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with… ▶336Reading
Marc AndreessenI know where I'm putting my money. ✨ Why Software Is Eating The World by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.315Life
Marc AndreessenOut of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts3610Thought
Marc AndreessenI don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.327Thought
Marc AndreessenMy goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.3510Humanity
Marc AndreessenQualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national un… ▶262HumanityTime
Marc AndreessenTen to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. ✨ Bubble? What Bubble?by Andrew Goldman, www… ▶329HumanityTime
Marc AndreessenI think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones. ✨ Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (… ▶286Thought
Marc AndreessenOne of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back … ▶3210Humanity
Marc AndreessenAround '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.243Philosophy
Marc AndreessenI love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to particip… ▶233Love
Marc AndreessenThere's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them246Time
Marc AndreessenThe 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 plan… ▶257Humanity
Marc AndreessenI've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. ✨ Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund.'. Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.co… ▶192Time
Marc AndreessenI always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanth… ▶214Sadness
Marc AndreessenOver 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. ✨ “Software Will Eat… ▶258Humanity
Marc AndreessenToday's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition192Politics
