Tim

"paid off, he said to me, "Roy, don't ever buy another company on an incentive basis and put a top dollar limit on the price." I said, "Why not, Tim?" He said, "I never took any chances in building up a bigger business for you. I just played it safe, to be sure to get my three million dollars. As a result, that division is not nearly as big and as important as it could have been. I had no incentive to work hard after we had our three million dollars in the bag. If Textron's contingent payout had been open-ended for ten years, Dalmo Victor would have been a far more profitable division.""

"The duo had proved themselves making the cube-shaped computer at NeXT, when Steve wanted “no draft angles, no parting lines,” meaning that the sides of the cast part would be perfectly parallel to the direction the part was ejected from in the mold. “Tim and Ken figured it out,” this person says. “And it was absurdly expensive, but that was a defining experience. So if Jobs was having a hard problem and these guys say, ‘It cannot be done,’ then it really can’t. But if these guys say, ‘It can,’ then it’s just really hard. Acorn was almost his brain trust or sounding board for, is this *possible* or is this *crazy?*”"