Achieve Quote by Henry Petroski Download Open image “Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.” — Henry Petroski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Achieve Achieving Avoiding Engineering Failure Function While
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things. — Alvin Leung Copy Share Image
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“Engineering circumstances means you put systems, rituals, rules and/or intentions in place to thwart you in the event you try to procrastinate, delay or… — Honoree Corder Copy Share Image
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want… — Gordon Moore Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that could achieve… — Deon Taylor Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they… — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
