It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage

Henry Petroski
22/09/2025
22/09/2025

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.

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It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage
Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski

American - Author Born: February 6, 1942

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

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

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Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

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A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.

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I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.

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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.

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