"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 suggestive of what went wrong in the case study."

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Source : "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

Henry Petroski

#Vocabulary Quotes #Design Quotes #Study Quotes

“Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.”
“You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.”

Source : Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.
“A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.”
“Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.”
“In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.”
“I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.”
“A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.”
“I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.”

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