Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company

We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don’t have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don’t think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues. But we live in a technical society; technology is just fundamental to our way of life. Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.

Ed Catmull, "Pleasing Wall Street is a Poor Excuse for Bad Decisions," Harvard Business Review, 20 Oct 2009,
blogs.hbr.org/2009/10/outsourcing-in-and-of-itself/

I don’t believe in a perfect process

We have had a substantial difficulty with every film that we made. That has included complete restarts. Toy Story 2 was a restart. Ratatouille was a restart. And The Good Dinosaur is a restart. In the past, because we were a little company, nobody paid attention or they didn’t know. It’s because Pixar is successful that now people are paying attention and saying, “Oh, what’s going on there?” What’s going on is what has always gone on: Ultimately, there’s a criterion whether the film is good enough and we don’t let the other stuff get in the way of it.

One thing I don’t believe in is the notion of a perfect process. Our goal isn’t to prevent all the problems; our goal is making good movies.

Ed Catmull as quoted in in David A. Price, "Managing Creativity: Lessons from Pixar and Disney Animation," Harvard Business Review, 9 Apr 2014, blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/managing-creativity-lessons-from-pixar-and-disney-animation/.