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“When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don’t really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.”
“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
“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
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“It was not easy being a smart girl in the 1940s. People thought you were annoying.”
― Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
― Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
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