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Failure Quotes by Henry Petroski
- I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it…
- What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it…
- Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them…
- The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past…
- When something succeeds, we learn little more from it than that it did succeed. When something fails, however, we are driven to try to understand…
- Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break…
- Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
- Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
- Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They…
- I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success…
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- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage
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- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
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