[SoCal Pubbie]

He's no dummy, that's for sure, except when it comes to politics. However, one must take ANYTHING written about Hollywood celebrities with a grain of salt. I suspect that much of the stories of him “designing” devices is a case of specifying features and letting engineers figure out how to make them work.

[Borges]

He started out as one of those designers that had to work from specs...and work from cheap as well. The story about him is that he knows everyone’s job on a film set better than they do (except acting which is the one thing he feels he can’t do better than the people he hires to do it).

[ApplegateRanch]

I suspect that much of the stories of him “designing” devices is a case of specifying features and letting engineers figure out how to make them work.

Now that sounds like a couple of architects with whom I'm acquainted.