Quotes from Marc Andreessen

If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.

The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

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.

My own theory is that 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.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

I don't waste time being depressed.

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

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

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

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.

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.

In high school, I actually thought I was going to have to learn Japanese to work in technology. My big feeling was I just missed it, I missed the whole thing. It had happened in the '80s, and I got here too late. But then, I'm maybe the most optimistic person I know. I mean, I'm incredibly optimistic.