Ettore Bugatti

“So he starts designing during World War I. He's making airplane engines for the allies and specifically for the Americans.”

“Bugatti once received a bill for electricity, Accompanied by a letter written in terms which he considered to be discourteous. He said as much to the manager, adding, come and see me in a year's time. I shall have something interesting to show you. A year late…”

“He buried the engines of three racing cars in the grounds of his estate. These engines, which were his latest constructions, were never detected, and he was able to recover them at the end of the war.”

“An employee, one employee, did nothing else but keep the paths and the workshop's floors clean And the door plates from which all oily marks left by mechanics were wiped away immediately when they were made.”

“It's this idea that you have to keep open the telephone line to your unconscious. And you see this all the time, like, why do you have ideas, like, suddenly, like, a problem that you're, like, unconscious or even subconscious mind is, like, mulling over, you k…”