Quotes from Marc Andreessen

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

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

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

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

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

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.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

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

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

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.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

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.

I know where I'm putting my money.

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.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

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.