Quotes By Marc Andreessen

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.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

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

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

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

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.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

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.

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

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.

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

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.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

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.

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

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

Once 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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