Marc Andreessen Quotes

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.
Marc Andreessen

Hard, Feelings, Makes

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.
Marc Andreessen

Good, Strong, Succeed

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
Marc Andreessen

Life, Daily, Done

I don't waste time being depressed.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Depressed, Waste

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

Change, Unhappy

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.
Marc Andreessen

Important, Understand, Matter

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

Technology, Through, Cycle

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 that good to be much better.
Marc Andreessen

Work, Good, Computers

Qualified 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 unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Job, While

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.
Marc Andreessen

Revolution, Before, Beginning

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 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 Andreessen

Two, Small, Away

Around '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.
Marc Andreessen

Wisdom, Two, Around

I 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 philanthropy.
Marc Andreessen

Work, Focus, Long

I know where I'm putting my money.
Marc Andreessen

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 probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Today, Before

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 up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Hard, Everything

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

Time, Trying, Matter

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.
Marc Andreessen

Power, Today, Used

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 also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.
Marc Andreessen

Sense, Makes, Means

Adaptability is key.
Marc Andreessen

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

Succeed, Idea, Almost

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
Marc Andreessen

Technology, Successful, Different

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
Marc Andreessen

Before, Far, Once

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.
Marc Andreessen

Successful, Whether, Company

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.
Marc Andreessen

Time, God, Wish

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Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: April 26, 1971

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