Here's an article I ran across this morning dispelling a few popular brake myths and common beliefs. The author does a pretty good job explaining how things work in the real world. Link
To use the comments of someone who has years of experience with racing brakes and apply this to all manufactured vehicles for sale to the general public makes no sense at all. The care and expenditures involved are vastly different for a passenger car and a race car where the engine alone costs more than whole passenger car and may only last for a single race (hopefully it does).