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"if i asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

• tablespoon 4y ago
  > "if i asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford I think a more apropos Ford quote would be the "you can have any color you want, as long as it's black," but that still doesn't capture it. It's one thing to present something that meets the needs of your customers that they didn't anticipate, it's quite another to ignore those needs and just force the thing you want on them at great cost. He was only concerned with software engineers writing less time conversion logic, and cherry-picking to try to justify that idea. If you think about it, the whole thing is crazy and backwards, given how people use time 99% of the time and who is better at arithmetic.