Thomas Watson,IBM CEO 8/63
“Last week Control Data … announced the 6600 system. I understand that in the laboratory developing the system there are only 34 people including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are programmers … Contrasting this modest effort with our vast development activities, I fail to understand why we have lost our industry leadership position by letting someone else offer the world’s most powerful computer.”
Notes:
This wonderful quote by Watson encapsulates the issue of the quality and size of a design team together with the right idea to beat any other organization or product.