Advantage Quote by Henry Petroski

“It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.” quote by Henry Petroski — Download Open image

“It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.”

Henry Petroski

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It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

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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 without incident…

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Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

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