Robert Scoble Quotes

I am training at such a high level that I actually could eat anything and get by. But as my coach always says, your body is like a car, and food is like your fuel. I am a race car, so I can't just put unleaded fuel in my car. I need that good premium fuel.

I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all.

I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volumes. If you're making 300,000 vehicles, you have to play it safe. Ultimately, the companies want to make customized cars, and they are all working on ways to do that. Experiments with structural systems are usually about that.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

The V50 is a genuinely great car, even as a diesel.

India is not going to come up with the best and most modern car, but if you want the most economic car in the world, we're pioneering that with the Nano, which the Tata Group did in India, for example. And I would call that innovation of the highest degree.

Like a race car you can't put in regular gas. That's what food is: your fuel.

If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

Every year we find something new, we go faster, and that's what Formula One is about .

It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.

I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.

Once I got into driving those little Mercedes convertibles, I just absolutely loved it. They feel really - great crash safety ratings, mechanically they're unbelievably sound, and I've been driving them ever since.

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

Our strategy is gaming for the masses.