"The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever……" — Norman Foster
"The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination."
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22 Quotes by Norman Foster
Norman Foster has 22 quotes on this site.
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As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially…
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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
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The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person…
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Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC.…
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Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether…
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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
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It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
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Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in…
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I think you never stop learning.
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I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject…
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Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just…
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More Aerodynamics Quotes
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Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid…
— Keith Devlin
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Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed…
— Sebastian Vettel
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The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on the aerodynamics at those…
— Wayne Hale
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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.…
— Kurt Busch
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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…
— Jeff Gordon
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The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity,…
— Anita Shreve
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Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled…
— Eoin Colfer
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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…
— Ira Glass
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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…
— Howard Schultz
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Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
— Enzo Ferrari
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