ROBERT METCALFE

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.

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

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

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

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

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.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

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

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

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

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

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

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

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.