David Cohen Quotes
The future is going to happen in Toronto or Berlin or Bengaluru and not necessarily in the Valley.
Boot argues that there are conditions which tend to foster technological development. Nations which are political unstable, or theocracies, rural, or suffering from food shortages have rarely developed much technology.
As it advanced we discovered that there is no perfection and that each new understanding and insight raises many more questions. The 20th century just exploded man’s knowledge.
A startlingly bad prediction by a Nobel-prize winning economist particularly given it was stated in 1998 rather than a much earlier date when the potential of the Internet wasn’t already apparent. Ironically, the quote is from a Red Herring article he wrote titled “Why Most Economists’ Predictions Are Wrong” in which he asserts that most economists predictions are wrong because they overestimate the impact of future technologies. This quote is part of a longer, equally incorrect quote: “The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” See related quotes.
David Cohen (born 1968) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Pinpoint Technologies, iContact.com, and Earfeeder. He is also an angel investor with a portfolio of more than 100 companies. Cohen is best known as the co-founder of Techstars, a mentorship-based startup accelerator.
