"An over-reliance on past successes is a sure……" — Henry Petroski
"An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures."
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41 Quotes by Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski has 41 quotes on this site.
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The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made…
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Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes…
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Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
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I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to…
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All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth…
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What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to…
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A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure…
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Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she…
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There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is…
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No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of…
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The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when…
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I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they…
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and…
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It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing…
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Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer,…
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What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted.…
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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your…
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Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.
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On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This…
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If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown…
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