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Henry Petroski Quotes

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Airplane Potential Ship Design Done

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Success Moment Political Lesson Use

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

Truth Money Government Too Much Kind

That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'

Best Job Man Do The Right Thing Step

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Truth Story Immigrants Country Tell

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

Daily People Colleagues Learn Cut

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

Effort Law Border Security First

I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.

Service Library Think House Kind

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

Bradley Wiggins

Wife Think Eat Because Get Stuff

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

Music Art Job People Think Universe

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

Good Sing Everybody Should Feels

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.

Peter Diamandis

Gratitude World Energy Opportunities

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

Competition Will Predict Difficult

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