Marc Andreessen Quotes
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Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.
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The most important thing is to get on the right horse.
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You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
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There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
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One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.
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More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
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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.
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I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.
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If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.
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Out 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 strikeouts
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An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
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There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
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There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.
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People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
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Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
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The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.
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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.
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We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
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More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. 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.
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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.
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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.
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There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them
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Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
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I don't waste time being depressed.
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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.
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I know where I'm putting my money.
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A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
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If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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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 plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.
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