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Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science …
Henry Petroski technology science
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or f…
Henry Petroski successful engineering
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
Henry Petroski achieving engineering
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways…
Henry Petroski future past successful
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is su…
Henry Petroski design study she
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and econom…
Henry Petroski success time
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it…
Henry Petroski engineering measure number
I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good de…
Henry Petroski success good design
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
Henry Petroski knowledge best engineering
The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.
Henry Petroski knowledge universe

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The old plural of Eye.
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