Quotes from Robert Metcalfe

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

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

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

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

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

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.

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.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.