Top 16 Robert Metcalfe Quotes
#2. I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
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#3. In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.
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#4. The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.
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#5. Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.
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#6. In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
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#7. I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.
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#8. 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.
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#10. I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
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#12. If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
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#13. I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.
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#14. Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
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#16. 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.
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