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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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Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.
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By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how…
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Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because…
— Joyce Meyer
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... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small,…
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No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
— Henry Petroski
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of…
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