Robert Metcalfe Professions : Electrical engineerBorn : April 7, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by Robert Metcalfe I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. Robert Metcalfe supernovacollapseinternet 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 creatingrunningjobs You don't grow the economy by growing government. Robert Metcalfe economygrowinggovernment 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 sawsinnovationpeople Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. Robert Metcalfe humorouswittyfunny The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. Robert Metcalfe get-betterinnovationunderstanding I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me. Robert Metcalfe typicalscrewed-up I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. Robert Metcalfe literaturewriting 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 visionariesorganizationreality 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 entrepreneursuccessfulfeet Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom. Robert Metcalfe prosperityinnovationworld In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. Robert Metcalfe programmingsquaresnumbers In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. Robert Metcalfe datagamesyears Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed. Robert Metcalfe innovationweedflower 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 predictionsinternetgrowth 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 checkseach-daytrying The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996. Robert Metcalfe willcollapseinternet Similar Authors Arthur E. Kennelly electrical-engineer Andy Bechtolsheim electrical-engineer Amar Bose electrical-engineer Irwin M. Jacobs electrical-engineer Dov Frohman electrical-engineer Harold Stephen Black electrical-engineerAll Authors
