Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

— Steve Jobs, TIME digital 50 (1999)

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20000612103032/http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/08.html

As quoted in Fortune (November 1998) and in TIME's Digital 50 (1999).

Topics: engineering leadership, creativity