Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession’s practitioners is
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past
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.
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia – as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia – ‘accidents.’ Foreseeing
My first book, ‘To Engineer Is Human,’ was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers
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