"Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation."

-- Henry Petroski

#Engineering Quotes

“The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.”
“It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”
“A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,â€”when?”
“Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.”

Source : "Demi Monde" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 07, 2007.
“Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.”
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”
“The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.”

Source : Reynolds Price (1989). “A common room: essays, 1954-1987”, Scribner Paper Fiction
“I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.”

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