Robert Metcalfe

“The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Life is precious, and you can't afford to waste time.”

“The Grateful Dead were the first social network.”

“You can't have a new technology without a new source of revenue.”

“Innovation is a process of turning ideas into invoices.”

“Ethernet is a networking technology that became a standard, and it's a world-wide standard.”

“Compatibility means deliberately removing features.”

“Failure is an option, but it's not a goal.”

“The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.”

“The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its users.”

“In our business, the winners are the ones who are paranoid.”

“Startups don't starve, they drown.”

“I have a prediction that in 1996, the internet will catastrophically collapse.”

“The next killer app is to get these damn computers to talk to each other.”