Robert Metcalfe Quotations

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

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.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The markets for the products are huge. If you can get it right, it's really a market that's infinite.