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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— Honore de Balzac
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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
— William Bernbach
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate…
— Clive Bell
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
— William Hazlitt
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
— Antoine Rivarol
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency…
— Mark Helprin
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No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I…
— Dalai Lama
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On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress me the…
— Monica Bellucci
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and…
— William Shakespeare
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