computer science

20 statements across 15 episodes · 16 bullish · 1 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Marc Andreessen · across every show →

Everything said about computer science, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 neutral
Insight
Andreessen: Software expansion is increasingly colliding with government regulations
“More and more, the interesting things that are happening is computer science gets applied to more fields. More and more, we're hitting the real world which is to say we're hitting real world regulations we're hitting real world laws, we're hitting real world p…”
Marc Andreessen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 41:48 Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
Jul 15, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Pande: All a16z bio portfolio founders possess dual CS and biology fluency
“And I would say all of the investments I've made have founders of this character that I could have a deep discussion with them in the computer science as well as the biology.”
Vijay Pande Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 6:09 On Machine Learning in Medicine and More
Jul 29, 2017 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: Candidates With Both CS and Biology Skills Will Easily Find Jobs
“Having those two skill sets makes you, like, There's, you will have no problem getting started in the industry just because there are very few people who have both vocabularies and the kind of opportunities in it are so big, so I, like, I don't think you can m…”
Ben Horowitz Jul 29, 2017 ▶ 48:48 On Career Moves and Business Leadership
Jul 29, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: Biotech company creation will resemble computer science within 5 to 10 years
“With computational biology, there are a lot, there are very interesting opportunities around diagnostics, where you can build a company in a way that's more similar to the way you build a computer science company. That's a lot of what we're funding, and so I t…”
Ben Horowitz Jul 29, 2017 ▶ 45:21 On Career Moves and Business Leadership
Dec 15, 2017 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Conde: Biology is shifting from experimental science to an engineered discipline
“As we move beyond software, we're at this point where we're seeing this incredible convergence between biology, computer science, and engineering. And it's this convergence that's going to give us broad new superpowers to understand and manipulate biology. Ess…”
Jorge Conde Dec 15, 2017 ▶ 1:30 Challenges in Healthcare Innovation
Mar 10, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Casado: APIs will become the primary interface for consuming software
“So we believe APIs are going to be the new way of consuming computer science, right? It used to be an application on, say your desktop, and then perhaps it was a webpage or a mobile app. Next, we think it's going to be an API.”
Martin Casado Mar 10, 2018 ▶ 8:14 The World Through an API
Mar 23, 2018 positive
Insight
Pande: Principles of traditional engineering disciplines carry over to biological systems
“I think mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, computer science, all these disciplines are pushing into biology, and so instead of steel, it's bone, or it's muscle, but the same principles actually carry over really nicely, and if yo…”
Vijay Pande Mar 23, 2018 ▶ 4:20 Pande & Conde: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Opinion
Krugman: Crypto uses advanced tech to regress monetary history 300 years
“From the point of view of monetary economists, we're exploiting cutting edge, ah, computer science, ah, to set the clock back 300 years.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 7:30 A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Computers should never ask questions they can calculate themselves
“There's an old computer science saying that a computer should never ask you a question it should be able to work out the answer to.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:52 a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Boneh: Computer science is now the largest major at Stanford University
“The computer science major at Stanford is, is exploding in the sense that we are now the largest major on campus and it's continuing to grow.”
Dan Boneh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:12 a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Boneh: Computer science is a top-two major for women at Stanford
“It's kind of interesting that we're even the largest either largest or second largest major for women on campus. So if you literally count number of women, computer science is now either the largest or the second largest on campus.”
Dan Boneh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:23 a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Insight
Andreessen: Applying computer science is the best way to advance physical industries
“We now have the opportunity to make progress in many of those fields, and in fact, the best way to make progress in many of those fields is to apply more computer science.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:52 a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Andreessen: Combining CS and liberal arts enables unique breakthroughs
“He proposes what he calls the third culture which are the people who can bring the two cultures together and the people who can bring, you know, physics, or now computer science, into liberal arts, and the people in liberal arts who can learn and understand, e…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:49 a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kevin Kelly: Software will dominate for 25 years before biotech eclipses it
“20, 25 year horizon that I'm talking about. So, so I think beyond that, yes, I think it's wide open, but I think, you know, for the next 25 years, I think this is what I'm talking about. I think computer science will continue to run everything. Software will c…”
Kevin Kelly Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 40:48 a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pande: Dual-domain biology and computer science founders will be a major trend
“What we're really seeing emerging are new founders, Founders that also live in both of these worlds. Founders that have deep experience in the biology and deep experience in computer science, and actually, for these types of companies, I think that's going to …”
Vijay Pande Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:26 a16z Podcast | Taking the Pulse on Bio
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levine: Data science will replace traditional coding as computer science foundation
“You know, I think that data science will become the new academic approach in computer science. There'll be less coding and more about data science. New algorithms for data science, new Approaches to understand the world around us. So, you know, we can call thi…”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:37 a16z Podcast | The End (and Beginning) of Programming
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Hennessy: Algorithmic thinking is a fundamental meta-discipline everyone must learn
“It is unique, and it is this meta-discipline, I mean, I think, and it's become the new meta-discipline that everybody needs to learn. Because algorithmic thinking is such a fundamental thing about how the world operates these days.”
John Hennessy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:58 a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
Jan 2, 2019
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hennessy: Scientific innovation requires a new breed of interdisciplinary machine learning experts
“And this is a big gap right now because the senior people in the field, it's highly unlikely that most of Most of them are going to take a year or two out and go back and learn a bunch of things about computer science and statistics and machine learning ideas.…”
John Hennessy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 38:53 a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hennessy: Computer science now attracts top academic talent over biological sciences
“I thought 10 years ago that computer science was going to become second to the biological sciences in terms of getting the best students, and that Everybody, the really best students were going to go do the biologicals, biotech, things like this. Well, that's …”
John Hennessy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 52:31 a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
Nov 7, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adam D'Angelo: Computer science fundamentals will remain essential for managing AI agents
“Having these skills to understand the sort of fundamentals of what's possible with algorithms and data structures, I think that actually really helps you in, in managing agents when you're using them. And I, I'm guessing that it will continue to be a valuable …”
Adam D'Angelo Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 55:11 Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
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