Quotes By Marc Andreessen

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

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

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.

In short, software is eating the world.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

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

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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