Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not...... "Henry Petroski"の名言

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.
— Henry Petroski

タグ: drawing, talent, painting, experience

"Henry Petroski"の他の名言

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.
— Henry Petroski

タグ: creation, space, universe, knowledge

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
— Henry Petroski

タグ: frustration, knowledge, failure, best

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
— Henry Petroski

タグ: opportunity, time, me, work

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.
— Henry Petroski

タグ: go, happy, be-happy, day

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 new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
— Henry Petroski

タグ: process, new, design, failure