We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies [...] hire people to tell them what to do. We hire people to tell us what to do. We figure we're paying them all this money; their job is to figure out what to do and tell us.

— Steve Jobs, Fresh Air (1996)

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141115121/steve-jobs-computer-science-is-a-liberal-art

From a 1996 Fresh Air radio interview with Terry Gross.

Topics: engineering leadership