"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 is a meaningless number."

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Source : "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". ASK OCE Interview, appel.nasa.gov. February 26, 2010.

Henry Petroski

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“They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it.”
“For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.”

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.
“The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.”
“The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.”
“This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.125, Open Road Media
“I was a piano player before I was a poet.”
“Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.”
“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.”

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