Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Form follows failure.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

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.

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

I have had all the disadvantages required for success.

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.