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Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

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Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

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Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

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As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

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Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

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Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

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Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

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For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

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It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.

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I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 6th, 1942

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