Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is a billionaire computer programmer, best known for co-creating Mosaic and co-founding the Netscape Communications Corporation.

• [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
  • Why Software Is Eating The World in The Wall Street Journal by Marc Andreessen on August 20, 2011

• 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
  • "Book Review: TEMPO Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative Driven Decision Making by Venkatesh Rao"

• 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)

• 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

• Czeslaw Milosz
• Patri Friedman
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
• Curtis Yarvin
• Bertrand de Jouvenel
• James Burnham
• Václav Havel

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