Marc Randolph Quotes

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.

The government has been screwing up computer program development for years.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

A theatrical release is not possible for a short film.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.

Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.

When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.

With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.

I just think streaming feels like it's the future. It allows people to watch things in a way that fits into their lives.

I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests.

Digital economy is happening everywhere in the world.

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.

There are very few industries that I know of - I mean, there are companies in fashion, in cosmetics. They're developing AI models and training them in the cloud in the beginning. If they're successful, they build their own datacenters and develop the software in their own datacenter, like Uber does.

I always admired Netflix's business model; they are really good at what they do.

Our strategy with DSiWare is the same as with WiiWare in that we want to provide new experiences every week.

On open platforms like PC, Mac, and Android, Epic's goal is to bring its games directly to customers.

Technology evolves continuously with solutions getting richer. For example, many of the earlier e-commerce ventures failed because of weak technology infrastructure.

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'.

It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.