Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
Marc AndreessenWhere 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 our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.
Marc AndreessenIt was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
Marc AndreessenOnce 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 a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.
Marc Andreessen