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"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."

— Henry Petroski
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Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

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