Henry Petroski's Quotes

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Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and...

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer...

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every...

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach...

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in...

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has...

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the...

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to...

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization...

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design...

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

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