24 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

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.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

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