Ingenious Quotes

“His car, he envisioned, would be almost completely recyclable, the death of one car giving birth to part of another in an endless cycle, a concept known as “cradle-to-grave sustainability.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

“Ford convinced the American public to believe in gasoline cars. And then Ford became Ford, and America became America.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

“...by the late 2000s, it seemed like a sucker's bet to try to make a living as an inventor in the classic sense, by creating useful and original things... the country's most famous inventors were inventing things of dubious merit, generating enormous wealth for a few by hawking gadgets to the many. In the San Francisco Bay Area, as America's coal-fired power plants continued to soak the atmosphere with gunk, as dysfunction snarled Congress and the roads and bridges chipped and cracked, as twelve million searched in vain for jobs and the economies of entire towns ran on food stamps, the best and brightest trilled about the awesomeness of their smartphone apps. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Angry Birds, Summly, Wavii: software to entertain, encapsulate, package, distract. Silicon Valley: a place that has made many useful things and created enormous wealth and transformed the way we live and where many are now working to build a virtual social layer atop the real corroding world.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

“Anti-Tachyon displacement emitter
AKA Flux Capacitor”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

“a quote from Henry Ford: “THINKING ALWAYS AHEAD, THINKING ALWAYS OF TRYING TO DO MORE, BRINGS A STATE OF MIND IN WHICH NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

“(Today a car is probably the most highly regulated product you can buy outside of a prescription drug, its every nook and cranny shaped by seemingly endless lines of federal code.)”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

“The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America