Famous quotes by Marc Andreessen:

"We have to try hard and liberate ourselves from assumptions."

"You can't determine whether to build a bridge by counting the number of swimmers. Consumers don't care about technology at the end of the day."

"This is a consumer phenomenon and people will care about what it has to offer them. We are not the market going from here on out."

"From there, we all benefit even if we're not related to these apps, because they're now online."

"I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with these URLs. Hopefully they'll take advantage of them."

"To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day."

"The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women,"

"I think it's all really positive for the industry. It will force the industry to make the changes that are required to make the Internet viable in the long run."

"This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best possible time to start a company, if you're willing to build for the long-term."

"Most of the software ideas of the late '90s which people tried and failed on--customer relationship management, marketing analytics, supply chain management, B2B procurement--those ideas all made sense and had good business justifications. But the tech wasn't quite there. Many customers who bought early feel bitter. But at some point those things will hit the mainstream and work."

"An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in."

"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."

"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."

"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.'"

"Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed."

"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."

"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."

"I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies."

"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."

"Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming."