Marc Andreessen Quotes

It's shocking to me how few people actually give entrepreneurship a shot. The fate of the world over the next 1,500 years is riding on the people who actually want to give it a shot.

Technology increases productivity → cost of output falls → demand for output rises → more total output gets built → more jobs (and at higher wages).

The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.

I'm glad there's OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.

Every argument of “because of the smartphone” or “the Internet” or “social media” is cope, to avoid confronting the catastrophic collapse of incumbent institutional competence over the same timeframe.

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.

Do you want to be liked, or do you want to win?

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

You will live in the pod, eat the bugs, use the only AI, and live on UBI.

Cognition, executive function, indeed existence itself, are whole-mind/body experiences. The answer is not inward, it is outward, and in 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

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?

When one thing becomes abundant and cheap, another thing becomes scarce and valuable.

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

Software is eating the world