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• There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

  Marc Andreessen

  Balance, Trying, Demand

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• The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

  Marc Andreessen

  Strong, News, Succeed

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

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• The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

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  Clouds, Years, Ideas

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" live blog, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

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  People, Broken, Ethical

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• We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

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  Opportunity, People, Pockets

  "Andreessen: There Is No Tech Bubble (And the Smartphone Is Still Under-Hyped)" by Michael V. Copeland, www.wired.com. May 01, 2012.

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• The multipurpose device will always fail.

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  Failing, Devices

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• Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

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  Crush, Real, Competition

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

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  Growth, Building, Easy

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

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• 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.

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  Years, Valleys, World

  "Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform The Tech Industry" by Cade Metz, www.wired.com. June 14, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Years, Two, Toys

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

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  Magic, Internet, Boxes

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• I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

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  Business, Technology, Doe

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• 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.

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  Tools, Needs, Internet

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

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• When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

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  College, People, Balance

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

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  Motivation, Entrepreneur, Three

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund.'". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

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  Guarantees That, Machines, Operating Systems

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Moving, Technology

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• I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

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  Valleys, World, Someday

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• 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.

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  Two, People, Use

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

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• 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.

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  Technology, Media, Water

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

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• There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

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  Class, Vanishing, Middle

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• The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

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  Believe, People, Growing

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• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

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  Player, Networking, Selling

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• Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

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  Nuts, Ideas, Firsts

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• 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.

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  People, Lasts, Crisis

  "Marc of the Valley on Newspapers and". Interview with Kevin Maney, www.wired.com. October 29, 2008.

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