Robert Metcalfe Quotes
- Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.
- Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon…
- Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.
- In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
- In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.
- Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.
- I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
- My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.…
- Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
- I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
- I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.
- The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.
- You don't grow the economy by growing government.
- When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few…
- If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
- The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.