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So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands. ↗

— Peter Andre

#active #busy #dangers #hands #know

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

#building #companies #company #during #extremely

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. ↗

— James Baker

#good #house #know #need #playing

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easier #emotionally #emotions #engineering #feelings

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. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#academics #around #conventional #conventional wisdom #internet

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#clearly #consumers #enormous #freeing #going

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#again #completely #crash #determined #everybody

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #dramatic #economic #economy #large

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

— Marc Andreessen

#building #company #difficult #easy #established

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#browser #comments #connected #consuming #create