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Henry Petroski Quotes

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Law Design Through Seems Advantage

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

Man Happy America Die I Can Run

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Myself Day Mind Week You Sunday

Oculus version three or five or whatever it ends up being is something that can be used unplugged - we'd have our own Android stuff and all that - but you could plug it into the PC and use that.

You Three Whatever Up Own Something

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

Myself Attention Want Never Draw

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

Battle Anorexia Very Public Had

Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well.

Yourself Think You Important Knowing

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

Passion Soul Writing Voice Feel Try

The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

Seriously Ignorant Mean Liberal

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

Mind Think You Mouth Argument Blood

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

Today People Me Famous Remember Say

I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet and staring at Leo and thinking about my first kiss and what I wanted it to be like. And when you have your first real love, it's an epiphany, you know? It's like a whole new world.

Love Experience Kiss World Thinking

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

City World Name Blur Remember Said

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