Marc Andreessen Quotes

Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others. Andreessen was one of six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994. Wikipedia  

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Famous Marc Andreessen Quotes

“Software is eating the world”

Marc Andreessen

Source: Why Software Is Eating The World in The Wall Street Journal by Marc Andreessen on August 20, 2011 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460

“The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless”

Marc Andreessen

Source: "Book Review: TEMPO Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative Driven Decision Making by Venkatesh Rao" http://www.lesc.net/blog/book-review-tempo-timing-tactics-and-strategy-narrative-driven-decision-making-venkatesh-rao

“Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”

Marc Andreessen

Source: On the Indian rejection of Free Basics, Twitter, February 20, 2016 - http://thenextweb.com/in/2016/02/10/marc-andreessen-just-offended-1-billion-indians-with-a-single-tweet/

“[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.”

Marc Andreessen

Source: 1995 remark quoted in Ian Murdock, "Windows as a poorly debugged set of device drivers?" https://web.archive.org/web/20060812205515/http://www.ianmurdock.com/, Ian Murdock's Weblog (2006-08-02); Andreessen in 2012 attributed the original quote https://www.wired.com/2012/04/ff-andreessen/ to Bob Metcalfe, describing it as a "retweet".

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