Quotes from Marc Andreessen

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

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.

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

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

I know where I'm putting my money.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

The great companies get built by their founders

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

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.

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

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.

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.

China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

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.

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.