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I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.Collection: Marc
I love the 'Daily Show,' and I think Jon Stewart is hysterical. But literally, the answer to every single problem is, 'Congress should pass a new law.' It's this unbelievably optimistic view of, 'We can pass a law, and then everybody will get along.'Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.Collection: Marc
I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.Collection: Marc
If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.Collection: Marc
If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.Collection: Marc
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.Collection: Marc
There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.Collection: Marc
There is a constant need for new systems and new software.Collection: Marc
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.Collection: Marc
I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.Collection: Marc
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.Collection: Marc
Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.Collection: Marc
You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.Collection: Marc
I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.Collection: Marc
I enjoy not being a public company.Collection: Marc
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.Collection: Marc
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.Collection: Marc
If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.Collection: Marc
If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. 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: Marc
I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.Collection: Marc
It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.Collection: Marc
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.Collection: Marc
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.Collection: Marc
The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course.Collection: Marc
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application.Collection: Marc
There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.Collection: Marc
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.Collection: Marc
Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.Collection: Marc
At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.Collection: Marc
Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.Collection: Marc
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.Collection: Marc
Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.Collection: Marc
This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.Collection: Marc
I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.Collection: Marc