Top 100 Marc Andreessen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Software is eating the world.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

4. “I don’t waste time being depressed.”

— Marc Andreessen

5. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

8. “Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.”

— Marc Andreessen

9. “The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

11. “There is the opportunity to do more and better if you’re smaller and more nimble.”

— Marc Andreessen

12. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

13. “Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.”

— Marc Andreessen

14. “There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.”

— Marc Andreessen

15. “Innovation doesn’t come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one’s heard of.”

— Marc Andreessen

16. “The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

19. “There’s no such thing as the middle class. It’s absolutely vanishing.”

— Marc Andreessen

20. “The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

22. “I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.”

— Marc Andreessen

23. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

24. “On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries – without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.”

— Marc Andreessen

25. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

26. “One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.”

— Marc Andreessen

27. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

29. “Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts.”

— Marc Andreessen

30. “Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.”

— Marc Andreessen

31. “Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.”

— Marc Andreessen

32. “It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn’t have written it!”

— Marc Andreessen

33. “I’ve been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don’t do.”

— Marc Andreessen

34. “I know where I’m putting my money.”

— Marc Andreessen

35. “If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.”

— Marc Andreessen

36. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

37. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

39. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

40. “Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better.”

— Marc Andreessen

41. “The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.”

— Marc Andreessen

42. “A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.”

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Marc Andreessen

44. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

45. “Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.”

— Marc Andreessen

46. “Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.”

— Marc Andreessen

47. “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.”

— Marc Andreessen

48. “At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.”

— Marc Andreessen

49. “Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as ‘all of Estonia.’”

— Marc Andreessen

50. “I always had the old-school model that I’m going to work for as long as I’m relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I’m going to learn about philanthropy.”

— Marc Andreessen