“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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“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.”
TechnologyAll Quotes by Marc Andreessen
“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“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“I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.”
Experience“Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.”
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.”
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.”
Computers“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.”
Business“If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.”
Morning“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.”
Technology“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 you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.”
Change“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.”
Wisdom“I know where I'm putting my money.”
Money“Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.”
Education“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“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“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.”
Change“You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.”
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