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Henry Petroski has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the…
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Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;…
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Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
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I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the…
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All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it…
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What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure,…
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A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands…
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Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall…
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There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the…
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No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
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The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take…
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I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing…
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in…
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General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring…
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and…
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…
— James Madison
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are…
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Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered.…
— Jacques Ellul
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
— Lester R. Brown
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt…
— Adolf Hitler
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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