The Texas group “had to sandbag the Alto III, because with it they wouldn’t make their numbers and therefore wouldn’t get their bonuses. It would have been an absolutely impossible burden on them to be successful in making typewriters and also introduce the world’s first personal computer. And they should never have been asked to do it that way. So it was shot down.” In other words, as mentioned earlier, the weak link is not the supply of ideas. It is the transfer to the field. And underlying that weak link is structure—the design of the system—
A poor system will kill innovation
