"All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations."

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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

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“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
“Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
“Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.”
“I think children need to be nurtured for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be. I think that's when those ideas come into your head of like, What should I feel in this moment? It's because someone told you, "Your instinct was incorrect." And you're like, Why? Why is that wrong?”
“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
“What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.”
“I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.”
“There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press

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