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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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If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
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All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary…
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I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs,…
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I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My…
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Someone died of a brain aneurysm today while taking a standardized test. The last thing anyone saw him do was stand up,…
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