Bob Metcalfe Quotations

Netscape is one of those companies that came and went and will return with little help from the press. The Internet allowed them to go over our heads directly to customers.

When we said we would sign up multiple microcontroller partners, it raised an important issue, since we're a tiny company. We had the specific discussion of eliminating OEM sales in favor of partnering with chip suppliers, but the coprocessor market appeared to have a long enough life to justify our offering products like the EM260 independently.

What's done at the hardware level is really minuscule compared to what could be done,

In seven to 10 years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

A huge swing factor is whether complacent telecommunications monopolies are left standing, ... If so, progress will be very slow, as in the past.

It's not going to be a big hit in the cities, and it's not going to replace all Internet access -- you'd have to blacken the sky with satellites, ... But out in the country, or in underdeveloped nations, it does have an interesting economic effect.