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Henry Petroski Quotes

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Space Design Engineers Events Leave

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Friend Me You Need Show Pest

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

Jessica Lowndes

Love Good Me Better Feel You

When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.

Stephen Graham Jones

Me Door Deep Reach Enough Uncle

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

Myself Man Country Without Charm

I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

Busy Better Through Where Been Lean

In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

Morning Today Myself Woman I Am Up

If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.

Mary Lou Jepsen

You More Something Make Much Lot

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Coleman Hawkins

Style Words Me Play Whatever Seems

Usually, when I'm at a festival with a movie that I'm in, I'm in and out in 24 hours.

Out 24 Hours Hours Movie Festival

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Time Creative Curious Feel Artist

Of course you don't want to hear racist chants, but sometimes, as a player, you have to take it.

You Sometimes Want Take Hear Course

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

Culture Past I Am Admit India Will

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