“If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.”
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“An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.”
TechnologyAll Quotes by Marc Andreessen
“Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.”
Education“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.”
Computers“Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.”
Technology“An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.”
Technology“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.”
Business“You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.”
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.”
Communication“More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.”
Movies“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.”
Business“I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.”
Technology“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.”
Computers“Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.”
Technology“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.”
Computers“I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.”
Experience“The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.”
Car“If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.”
Morning“I know where I'm putting my money.”
Money“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.”
Morning“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.”
Business