Marc Andreessen Quotes

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

It's very easy to say that men think about things more simply, but it kind of is true. And that's not actually a bad thing. Approaching things in a more logical, practical fashion. This is a massive generalisation, but women tend to think about things more first, then act afterwards.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Italians think with their heads.

I'm always quite rational.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

I have a very linear mind.

I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.