Assistance Quote by Bill N. Lacy

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

— Clive Thompson

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

— Giorgetto Giugiaro

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

— Jason Newsted

The industrial leader of the 20th century was a system-builder. He was a visionary in terms of what could be built; got the capital…

— Robert Reich

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

— Scott Adams

Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock…

— Charles R. Morris

“One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the ‘not invented here’ syndrome, but…

— Paul M. Barrett

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying…

— Steve Wozniak

“…no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he…

— Ralph Caplan

[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like…

— John Desmond Bernal

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

— Azzedine Alaia