Hobart Alter Quotes

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the passion to create beautiful and exclusive products. He also taught me to persevere if I want to reach my goals.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

I just figure if it has my name on it, and I want to make people feel good about wearing it, I can't pass it off.

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Build to a standard, not a price.

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

America produces the world's best steel, and southwestern Pennsylvania produces the world's best steelworkers.

It's great to wave the flag - I always say we're proud to be made in America - but I think our distinction is we make it well in America.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

To make a perfect t-shirt is hard - all you have is white cotton and fit. that's where experience comes in.

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship