It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'
If you haven't really raced a lot in lower categories, and you make the jump to Formula One, you have to learn in Formula One, and a lot more people are watching.
Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.
The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.
I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.
I've had a lot of baptism by fire.
