"As engineers, we were going to be in……" — Henry Petroski

"As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it."

— Henry Petroski

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41 Quotes by Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made…
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes…
Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to…
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth…
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to…
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure…
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she…
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is…
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of…
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when…
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they…

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More Change Quotes

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Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from… — Billie Joe Armstrong
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about… — Karen Armstrong
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in… — David Attenborough
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our… — David Attenborough
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius

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