Robert Metcalfe Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom. — Robert Metcalfe

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996. — Robert Metcalfe

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

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

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

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — Robert Metcalfe

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. — Robert Metcalfe

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

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government. — Robert Metcalfe

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me. — Robert Metcalfe

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed. — Robert Metcalfe

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

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