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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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You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and…
— Doreen Virtue
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I wake up in the morning, put on my face. The one that's going to get me through another day. Doesn't really…
— Avril Lavigne
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If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from…
— John Dalton
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Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into…
— Thomas Kinkade
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But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;…
— Ramona Koval
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
— David McCullough
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I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
— Whitney Houston
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Drama seems to kind of surround me.
— Casey Johnson
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