"Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure."

-- Henry Petroski

#Engineering Quotes #Achieve Quotes #Function Quotes

“Are you keeping anything else from me?â€ â€œIâ€™m keeping a lot of things from you.â€ â€œLike?â€ â€œLike the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.”
“I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.”
“You never monkey with the truth.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“Let me arise and open the gate, / to breathe the wild warm air of the heath...”
“One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.”
“I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter”
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”
“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”

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