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.

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.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

The soul creates, the mind reacts. The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.