Robert Metcalfe Quotes

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

- 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

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

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

- 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

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

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

- Robert Metcalfe

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

- Robert Metcalfe

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

- 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

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

- Robert Metcalfe

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