Design I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories... Henry Petroski 25
Design Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. Henry Petroski 25
Design It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage. Henry Petroski 27
Design Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of... Henry Petroski 29
Design Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a... Henry Petroski 24
Design Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. Henry Petroski 31
Truth All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct... Henry Petroski 28
Change As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it. Henry Petroski 33
