Python gets a "Developer-in-Residence"

For sure ! ... I remember now that Henri Ford told that but my grand-father was the first reseller of General Motors in 1925 and
we where more GM and Sloan oriented ! Thanks.

> The author of the "Black" code formatter is Polish, and IIUC chose the name because it's a formatter that "gives you any colour you want, as long as it's black", in reference to the apocryphal quote from Henry Ford about the Model T.

The documentation for Black prominently says "Any color you like", so that does sound like the source of the name.

Regarding the authenticity of the quote, Henry Ford's autobiography says: (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Life_and_Work/4)

> No business can improve unless it pays the closest possible attention to complaints and suggestions. If there is any defect in service then that must be instantly and rigorously investigated, but when the suggestion is only as to style, one has to make sure whether it is not merely a personal whim that is being voiced. Salesmen always want to cater to whims instead of acquiring sufficient knowledge of their product to be able to explain to the customer with the whim that what they have will satisfy his every requirement--that is, of course, provided what they have does satisfy these requirements.
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> Therefore in 1909 I announced one morning, without any previous warning, that in the future we were going to build only one model, that the model was going to be "Model T," and that the chassis would be exactly the same for all cars, and I remarked:
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> "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

It seems colour wasn't really the point - it was to illustrate his broader idea that it was better to just produce a single model of car and tell customers that that's what they ought to want, in order to lower production costs and widen the market for cars, which would more than make up for any losses in the luxury end where customers expect companies to cater to their whims.

(It's possible that Ford or his ghostwriter made up the quote with the benefit of hindsight, but at least it's a less apocryphal source than many famous quotes.)