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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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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the…
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In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.…
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king…
— Henry David Thoreau
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You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and…
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
— George Szell
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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and…
— Blaise Pascal
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
— Alan Hollinghurst
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There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk…
— Norman Thomas
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You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort…
— Robert Doisneau
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