Aerodynamics Quotes

• The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.

  Wayne Hale

  Lines, Normal, Degrees

  "Astronaut Will Make Shuttle Repairs in Orbit". "NPR News" with David Kestenbaum, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• As fast as we're going these days, especially because of the aerodynamics, we're all concerned about abusing tires. It's so fast that you're afraid of what you're going to do to the tires.

  Jeff Gordon

  Tire, These Days, Concerned

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• There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.

  Howard Schultz

  Butterfly, Law, Use

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Motor Racing, Motorsports, Engines

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• Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Safe, Driving, Speed

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• Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

  Keith Devlin

  Teaching, Math, Numbers

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• Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Motor Racing, Car, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

  Anita Shreve

  Fall, Heart, Law

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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• The client is not always right.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Luxury, Car, Racing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

  Keith Duckworth

  People, Car, Racing

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• But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Running, Climbing, Hiking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

  Ira Glass

  Writing, Law, Interesting

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• Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Dark, Space

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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• There wouldn't be any way I could have jumped into Cup with the success I had without the truck series. I wish I had more time to spend there. There are so many things the truck teaches you about aerodynamics, the professional ranks of racing, and working with a professional team.

  Kurt Busch

  Team, Racing, Wish

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