Bob Metcalfe Quotes (6 Quotes)

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.

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

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.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

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.

The NC will be off-stage for a while, and then reemerge with a new name, something like network appliance, ... And everyone will believe that Larry Ellison was wrong, when he's right.