No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

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.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

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.

Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts.

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.

Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices.

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.