“Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.”— Henry Petroski Related Quotes “Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?”— Craig D. Lounsbrough “You don’t have to want to be in arelationship for a little bow-chicka-bow-wow.”— Jennifer L. Armentrout “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”— Dale Carnegie