The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.