Henry Petroski Quotes

We always want to keep a clean sheet, but there are situations we can't control.

Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.

I'm conscious of my turnovers.

It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.

I want to protect my club. I want to try to protect my players. I want to try to protect my fans. Also, I want to try to protect the Premier League.

Unpredictable - that's a word that us as coaching staff hate.

I'm generally pretty responsible and diligent, but people make mistakes.

You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I can't say I'm never going to mess up, but if I do, I'll definitely be very sorry.