Henry Petroski Quotes

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

Henry Petroski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1942

Topics

CreativeBridgeDesignWebsite

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

Joanna Newsom

LiveRespectGreatSchoolMeHigh

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

John Anderson

NeedRightGetLosers

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

Robert Rodriguez

TechnologyPushWantMoreBoundaries

I want to live a fulfilling life.

Amy Purdy

LifeLiveWantFulfilling

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.

Steve-O

GreatMeCameraDownSkateboarding

The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

Steven Rattner

BlessedPriceTaxTaxesLeadUs

I remember I did a character in 'Robocop' years ago - Commander Cash. I wore this really ridiculous outfit, and my face was covered. You couldn't recognize me in the suit; you could only hear my voice.

Roddy Piper

CharacterMeVoiceFaceRemember

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

Mitch Kapor

ChangeTodayHealthTimeI AmSee

My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.

Luke Evans

StyleMomentMoodCircumstances

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

Julia Child

CookingPeopleDietRulesOldOver

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

Jose Bergamin

ArtAttentionTrueOrderAttract

I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.

Diego Costa

ChangePlayWayNeverGoingExtra

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