Ken

"Richard was undeterred. “Think big, Ken!” he’d say. “Somebody’s got to.” He encouraged us to keep the dialogue with Gardner going just to stay in the mix."

""Remember, Ken, a good manager has to be hard to bruise and quick to heal." That was a good lesson, one I've passed on to many other managers. You can't be too quick to take offense."

"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?*”"

"‘Ken said when you come back [to Australia] give me a call, which I did,’ Knox recalls. ‘I consulted to Stokes one day a week, which developed into seven days a week.’ Seven days a week would become fifteen years — although Knox prides himself on the fact that he was never on the payroll. He was his own man, retained as a consultant."