Aerospace Quote by Jerome F. Lederer

People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is…

— Mae Jemison

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

— Simon Newcomb

Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has…

— Donald A. Norman

The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.

— Richard Quest

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

— Henry Petroski

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

— Donald Berwick

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

— Paul Nitze

“Human error is not random. It results from basic human mental abilities and physical skills combined with the features of the tools being used,…

— Nancy G. Leveson

No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because…

— William E. Burrows

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success, many pathways to do that,…

— Ellen Ochoa

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb