
"Our new idea is really big."
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"Our new idea is really big."
Creative department
"Listen, Dobson, your inscrutable smile may work in Research & Development, but it doesn't cut here in sales!"
"The safety committee fixed your invention. Now it won't keep rolling away."
Sales Research shows it's too big for them to carry home, sir.
'They never let you forget that your intellectual property belongs to them.'
"Great prototype, but I asked for a grate prototype."
'This is Phillips. He's our new idea man.'
'If this elixir works, I see an over-the-counter version in three years.'
Megagroup - ...He's in charge of our icecream arm.
'Planning Department.'
"The extra long selfie stick, for the post-virus generation."
"I think R&D is staging a coup!"
Science in industry
'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'
The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'
'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'
Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.
ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'
"Where's the business end of this thing?"
Bright idea
'We manufacture micro computing circuits. We're looking to hire someone who can anticipate the next small thing.'
"What if, instead of the safe being filled with rawhide, it's filled with catnip and mice!" "No one will buy it." "Drugs and rodents? Who's our demographic?" "The Simpsons already did that."
GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.
'I've found a way to improve on light beer!'
'Does it bother anyone else that our entire business is based on one questionable product?'
Research and Development: Now, Never.
"I need a simple fix. No one asked you to reinvent the wheel."
'We need a product line that will stimulate our profit line.'
Now if we can just figure out how to use this to power that.
"I know R&D feels that the product warrants at least two 'really'."
"We finally found a way to bottle enthusiasm."
"What these product ideas lack is a little bite."
"Whoa! Back up a second... 'R & D' stands for 'Research & Development?' We always thought it meant 'Rip-off & Distribute!'"
'Okay, the motorized rocking chair could use an emergency off switch.'
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