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. Votes: 21
The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. Votes: 14
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. Votes: 12
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. Votes: 9
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. Votes: 9
If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor. Votes: 5
I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. Votes: 5
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. Votes: 4
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. Votes: 4
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. Votes: 3
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom. Votes: 3
Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed. Votes: 3
You don't grow the economy by growing government. Votes: 2
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since. Votes: 0
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. Votes: 0
I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me. Votes: 0