Quotes by : Henry Petroski

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really....

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among,....

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

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can....

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time....

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores....

Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile....

Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for....

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration....

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as....