Best Quote by Henry Petroski

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

— Charles Hugh Smith

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

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

— Dinesh Paliwal

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

— Randy Pausch

“people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious”

— Peter Thiel

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

— Henry Petroski

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

— Henry Petroski

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

— Steve McConnell

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

— Leon Kass

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

— Scott Adams

“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to…

— Carl Sagan