The full quote in dirty imperial units:
I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.
– The Fast and the Furious
How was this translated to metric?
Well 1, there’s a lot of classic recipes out there written for cups and tablespoons so if you want to keep cooking those you’ll need traditional measuring tools anyway and
2, Recipe calls for 1/4 teaspoon, you get the spoon that says 1/4 tsp on it and scoop once. It’s not ancient egyptian rocket surgery.