Marc Andreessen
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
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.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.
I know where I'm putting my money.
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.
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.
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.Collection: Business
The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.Collection: Differences
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 economyCollection: Dramatic
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.Collection: Years
In short, software is eating the worldCollection: World
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.Collection: Crazy
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the dayCollection: Guy
Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’Collection: Crazy
My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.Collection: Running
You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.Collection: Sleep
Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.Collection: Code
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.Collection: People
The great companies get built by their foundersCollection: Founders
We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.Collection: People
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.Collection: Running
If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.Collection: Thinking
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.Collection: Moving
Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Glasses
It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'Collection: Thinking
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!Collection: Computer
All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.Collection: Love
More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. 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.Collection: Running
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companiesCollection: Hate
The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.Collection: Taken
When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.Collection: War
Innovation accelerates and compounds.Collection: Innovation
The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.Collection: Clouds
Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'Collection: Team
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.Collection: People
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break upCollection: Technology
The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.Collection: Years
There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance themCollection: Balance
There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.Collection: Class
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.Collection: Valleys
The most important thing is to get on the right horse.Collection: Horse