Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
accommodation achievement design
Henry Petroski
These are some quotes by American author Henry Petroski Author, who was born on February 6, 1942.
Quotes by Henry Petroski
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.
