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“People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. 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
Computers
“Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.”
— Marc Andreessen
Business
“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
“More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.”
— Marc Andreessen
Movies
“Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.”
— Marc Andreessen
Education
“Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.”
— Marc Andreessen
Car
“If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.”
— Marc Andreessen
Morning
“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
Computers
“Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.”
— Marc Andreessen
Business
“I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.”
— Marc Andreessen
Experience
“I know where I'm putting my money.”
— Marc Andreessen
Money
“In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.”
— Marc Andreessen
Power
“You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.”
— Marc Andreessen
Technology
“If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.”
— Marc Andreessen
Change
“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.”
— Marc Andreessen
Computers
“These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.”
— Marc Andreessen
Home
“Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.”
— Marc Andreessen
Technology
“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
Communication
“When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.”
— Marc Andreessen
Business
“The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.”
— Marc Andreessen
Car
“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.”
— Marc Andreessen
Morning