"The cost of a model is more than compensated for by future savings. It not only presents an accurate picture of the product for the executives, but it also gives the tool-makers and production men an opportunity to criticize and to present manufacturing problems."

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Source : Henry Dreyfuss (2012). “Designing for People”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Henry Dreyfuss

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.”
“Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.”
“I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'. It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.”
“If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!”
“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.”
“Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.”
“In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.”

Source : "Adam and Eve Didn’t Exist. Get Over It!" by Michael Ruse, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.
“don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.”

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