With American zeal and Teutonic precision, Siemens sets out stall for the future
There are not very many laughs at Siemens these days. Europe’s oldest and most highly regarded engineer finds itself battered by a vicious recession just as it recovers from a sharp judicial spanking for bribery and corruption. Even so, Peter Löscher, its chief executive, had to struggle to prevent his face from breaking into a grin.
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson