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Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.
— Henry Petroski
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.
— Henry Petroski
Design is nothing if not decision making.
— Henry Petroski
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.
— Henry Petroski
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.
— Henry Petroski
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
— Henry Petroski
I was in love with her; couldn't imagine my life without her in it; but at the same time, I wanted her to have better.
— Jamie McGuire
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
— Henry Petroski
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
— Henry Petroski
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.
— Henry Petroski
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
— Henry Petroski
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.
— Henry Petroski
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
— Henry Petroski
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.
— Henry Petroski
When you conquer something, it means you fought for it.
— Jeaniene Frost
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
— Henry Petroski
We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.
— Henry Petroski
Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.
— Henry Petroski
Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
— Henry Petroski
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
— Henry Petroski
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
— William Hazlitt
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
— Henry Petroski
Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.
— Henry Petroski
We shall create wonders that will make the world tremble.
— Sarah J. Maas