andreessen Quotes

“People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. 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.”

“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.”

“Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.”

“One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.”

“More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.”

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