Robert Metcalfe Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Internet #Collapse #Supernova

“Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Witty #Humorous #Grove

“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.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Running #Jobs #Creating

“You don't grow the economy by growing government.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Government #Growing #Economy

“The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Innovation #Understanding #Get Better

“I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Typical #Screwed Up

“I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Writing #Literature

“Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Reality #Organization #Visionaries

“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.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Successful #Feet #Advice

“I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#People #Innovation #Saws

“Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Innovation #World #Prosperity

“In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Numbers #Squares #Theory

“In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Data #Games #Voice

“Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Weed #Flower #Innovation

“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.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Growth #Internet #Made

“If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.”
-- Robert Metcalfe

#Trying #Each Day #Projects