Marc Andreessen Quotes

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.

One 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 and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

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 really, really big one.

In short, software is eating the world

The multipurpose device will always fail.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

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 at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

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've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

I 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 participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

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.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

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

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

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 versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

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.

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

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

I don't waste time being depressed.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

I enjoy not being a public company.

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.

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

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.