Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is a billionaire computer programmer, best known for co-creating Mosaic and co-founding the Netscape Communications Corporation.
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Quotes
edit- [Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.
- 1995 remark quoted in Ian Murdock, "Windows as a poorly debugged set of device drivers?", Ian Murdock's Weblog (2006-08-02); Andreessen in 2012 attributed the original quote to Bob Metcalfe, describing it as a "retweet".
- Software is eating the world
- 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
- Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?
- On the Indian rejection of Free Basics, Twitter, February 20, 2016
- The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges -- the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here.
- being asked about his favorite book (4. Okt. 2022)
- The two premodern religions were ancestor worship and nature worship (see "The Ancient City" by Fustel de Coulanges). The two postmodern religions are evidently identitarianism and environmentalism. Is this a coincidence, or something deeper?
- his favorite book to make a point about modern culture (22. März 2022)
Attributed
edit- I'm glad there's OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.
- Quoted by journalist Rick Perlstein, on the subject of people living in rural America
