On Oct 23, 2004, at 9:40 PM, Paul Bowers wrote:
> If you think that the study of failure doesn't belong in the mental
> repertoire of engineers and designers you're probably in the wrong
> place.
Too true. we wouldn't have piping codes if there hadn't been so many
field failures to learn from. Petroski said that engineers only learn
from failures, probably becasue no one ever does a post mortem on
successes.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
...................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/ Received on Sat Oct 23 23:34:00 2004
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