Quotes from Marc Andreessen | The Coding Nirvana Project
_ In short, software is eating the world.
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| "Software is eating the world." © Richard Malone |
Coding and Testing Yields of Marc Andreessen
_ lead developer of Mosaic
_ founder and lead tester of Netscape
_ founder and lead tester of Opsware
_ founder and lead tester of Andreessen Horowitz
_ blogger at blog.pmarca.com
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| Marc Andreessen at the Tech Crunch40 conference © Brian Solis |
_ I don't like to not call a spade a spade.
_ PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.
_ You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
_ Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.
_ 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.
_ 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.
_ 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.
_ Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
_ 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.
_ There is a constant need for new systems and new software._ Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
_ The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
_ 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.
_ 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.
_ An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
_ 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.
_ 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.
_ Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
_ There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.
_ Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
_ Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.
_ An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
_ 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.
_ The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.
_ If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
_ I don't waste time being depressed.
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