Airplane Quote by Henry Petroski

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

— Anonymous

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

— Freeman Dyson

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent…

— Lawrence Hargrave

A project without a critical path is like a ship without a rudder.

— Anonymous

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

— Carl Sagan

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs…

— Gianfranco Frattini

Design exists to serve some purpose.

— Paula Scher

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody…

— Howard Hughes

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material…

— Chester W. Nimitz