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• Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
• As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.
• The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the…
• Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable;…
• Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
• I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the…
• All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it…
• 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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