Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Metcalfe

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Robert Melancton Metcalfe is an engineer and entrepreneur from the United States who helped pioneer the Internet starting in 1970. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Since January 2011, he has been Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise.

American - Inventor | Born: April 7, 1946

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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

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

Robert Metcalfe

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Robert Metcalfe

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

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

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

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

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

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

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

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

Robert Metcalfe

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

Robert Metcalfe

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

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

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

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Robert Metcalfe

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Metcalfe

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