Robert Metcalfe quotes

Robert Metcalfe is an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the co-inventors of Ethernet networking technology. His work has had a profound impact on computer networking and the development of the modern Internet. He continues to influence the tech industry through his research, teaching, and entrepreneurship. Here are 12 of his quotes:

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

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

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

Robert Metcalfe

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

Robert Metcalfe

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Robert Metcalfe

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

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

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