24 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.