>However I think he could have explained this, instead of making some pithy remark about other people having wrong opinions or something. That's hardly fair wh

>However I think he could have explained this, instead of making some pithy remark about other people having wrong opinions or something. That's hardly fair when you're talking in quotes. These are by-definition snippets taken out of context. Actually I'll make a stronger statement: it's an absurd request. You can't just judge someone, and their mindset, based on a single random statement they made that somehow became popularly remembered across all the other million of statements they made. You have to at least make the effort to find a small body of work to judge by Anyways, at least according to this guy[0], Ford likely never said it except as a joke. [0] https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Henry-Ford-say-%E2%80%9CA-customer-can-have-a-car-painted-any-color-he-wants-as-long-as-it%E2%80%99s-black%E2%80%9D https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Henry-Ford-say-%E2%80%9CA-cust...