Marc Andreessen Quotes

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion users, and there are seven billion people in the world.

You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

I get really excited imagining what we can do in the future with broadband.

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.