The story about Mark Andreessen, venture capital, and Silicon Valley.
Herbert Allen III (of the investment bank Allen & Company) mentions the American myth by which we presume he means to shed some light on the reality of the American dream, and the article’s author (Tad Friend) then states a corollary, the cycle of American impatience: What exists is bad and what replaces it is good (adding —until the new thing itself must be supplanted, but that seems implied).