Marc Andreessen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.”

“I don't like to not call a spade a spade.”

“Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.”

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

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

“You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.”

“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.”

“If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.”

“In short, software is eating the world.”