Robert Metcalfe Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
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“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 people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.”
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“You don't grow the economy by growing government.”
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“The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.”
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“I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.”
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“I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.”
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“Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.”
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“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. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.”
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“I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.”
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“Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.”
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“In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.”
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“In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.”
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“Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.”
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“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 go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
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“If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.”
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