who said it?

[J. Schmidt]

"Make lightness and simplificate."
Or something like that. I think it was Colin Chapman but I'm not sure. Any ideas?

[J. Schmidt]

"Make lightness and simplificate."
Or something like that. I think it was Colin Chapman but I'm not sure. Any ideas?

[Igor]

"Simplify and add lightness"
"To make it go faster you will have to add lightness"

Colin Chapman

[ben]

Colin Chapman was English and would never have used a word like simplificate :-p

America seems to have developed this fascination with adding -est, -ate, and -ize to all sorts of words for which they were never intended.

I don't mean that in a rude way, but just to make the point that English and American English are often very different languages.

Ben

[Charlie]

Don't be so stereotypificating ben. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[Kevin Hayward]

Wasn't the Colin Chapman quote a bit more like:

"Add lightness and simplicity ... Mate"

or

"To make it go faster you will have to get a HSV with a big donk and a no fear sticker"

Kev

[John Bucknell]

Or if he was W:

"Addify lightitude and simplificiness ..."