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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She…
— Immanuel Kant
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To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.
— Horatio Nelson
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
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I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean…
— Eliza R. Snow
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Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls…
— Helen Keller
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I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a…
— Josh Lucas
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI,…
— Vin Diesel
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Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and…
— Unknown Author
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