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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.