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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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February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the…
— Xavier Becerra
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it…
— Eric Cantona
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the…
— James Madison
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
— Thomas Paine
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any…
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He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all…
— Coretta Scott King
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We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the…
— Albert Claude
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of…
— Steven Pressfield
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Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man…
— George Washington
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[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations…
— Roger Bacon
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