Marc Andreessen Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Want, Done, Internet

• 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

  Two, People, Use

  “Software Will Eat The World” by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Writing, Years, People

• 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.’

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Character, Technology

• The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

  Marc Andreessen

  Magic, Internet, Boxes

• 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

  Years, Two, Toys

• I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Way, Internet

  "Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise". Interview with Alexia Tsotsis, techcrunch.com. January 27, 2013.

• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Phones, Years, People

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

• 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

  Tools, Needs, Internet

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Clouds, Romance

• 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.

  Marc Andreessen

  Looks, Pages, Host

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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