"As long as there are things to wonder……" — Henry Petroski
"As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing."
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41 Quotes by Henry Petroski
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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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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as…
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except…
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,…
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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