“After all, it’s actually relatively easy to drive a Formula One car. Throttle, Green, Green, Amber. Change. Brake, turn the wheel, point it at a corner, accelerate. Simple. It’s like an arcade game. The challenge is doing it faster than everybody else without losing control. That is an entirely different level.”
― How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
― How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
“I must admit, I like the street circuits. I think they have more character than what you might call the ‘clean sheet of paper’ circuits that have cropped up in recent years. Those all feel very formulaic and lacking in character, but I guess that’s what you get when Bernie always uses the same architect to design them.”
― How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
― How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer
“BELIEVING IN YOURSELF IS NICE. FORGIVING YOURSELF IS BETTER.”
― Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
― Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
“First we must accomplish the task at hand. An officer who looks too far ahead stumbles over his own boots.”
― The Hunt for Red October
― The Hunt for Red October
“Don’t let yourself do something simply because you’ve started on a path and feel that you should complete it. Life is too short for that.”
― Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice from Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived
― Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice from Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived
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