"Successful engineering is all about understanding how things……" — Henry Petroski
"Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail."
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Henry Petroski
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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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