Marc Andreessen Quotes

“Software is eating the world.”

“The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.”

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

“All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.”

“My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.”

“I don't waste time being depressed.”

“The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”

“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.”

“You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.”

“I needed Netscape to work, it had to work—it was my one-way door—so I was absolutely intolerant of anything that got in the way.”

“I put ninety per cent of my effort into seeking out deals from the top eight venture firms, ten per cent into the next twelve, and zero per cent into all the rest.”

“We are being lied to. We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.”

“Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'”

“There's a sense in which all of this is math—you just don't know which Tuesday Mark Zuckerberg is going to walk in.”

“The natural state of human beings is to be subsistence farmers, and that was my expectation. Scandinavian, hard-core, very self-denying people who go through life never expecting to be happy.”

“We're imperfect people pursuing perfect ideas, and there's tremendous frustration in the gap. A world of just computers wouldn't work. But a world of just people could certainly be improved.”

“We are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.”