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Function Quotes by Henry Petroski
- Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
- Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.
- 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…
- Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such…
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- You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function… — Dick Cheney
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you… — Rajneesh
- Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson
- Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and… — Barack Obama
- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly… — Rajneesh