24 Quotes by Robert Metcalfe

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    Energy has got to be one of the top five problems the world faces, and it's been frustrating to watch activists and politicians fail to solve the problem. Now it's time for the entrepreneurs and scientists to give it a try.

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

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    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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    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.

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

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    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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    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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