I'd rather make music than tour.
Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.
The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you've got to start saving. It's not easy.
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great big shoulders, and that just isn't us. But then a big, powerful swimmer isn't going to be so good on the bike and the run.
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
I know sometimes I played to the crowd, and it did cost me.