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— Henry Petroski"I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number."
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Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.
— Henry Petroski
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