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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski ebook
Page: 269
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Format: djvu

Henry Petroski, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, says that in his field, failure is almost a prerequisite for success, because only by reaching a point of failure can you define the limits of possibility. A really good book that changed my view on the subject was “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. Our thread on talking with fundamentalists and various threads now active on the Open Anthropology Cooperative, reminded me of Henry Petroski's classic To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. As Henry Petroski writes in To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, we learn more from our failures than our successes. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. Find 0 Sale, Discount and Low Cost items for failure is success - prices as low as $8.99. I remember reading “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” a long while ago and the take home lesson for me was we have to learn from our failures. I just finished reading Henry Petroski's To Engineer Is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. To study the fundamental physical potential To study these questions means exploring, not the time-bound consequences of human actions, but the timeless implications of known physical law. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Review The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! One should remember the lesson drawn by Henri Petroski (author of the Pencil an To Engineer is Human) that success leads to a lowering of standards and failure leads to an raising of standards. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. In science a single failed prediction can disprove a theory, no matter how many previous tests it has passed, while in engineering one successful design can validate a concept, no matter how many previous versions have failed. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.