Henry Petroski The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we’re doing differ only in magnitude. – Henry Petroski Aspirations Quotes Build Quotes Celebrate Quotes Driving Quotes Drove Quotes Egyptians Quotes Magnitude Quotes Pyramids Quotes Spirit Quotes Uplift Quotes It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage. Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.
Amity Gaige Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, ‘California,’ somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible. – Amity Gaige
Sam Allardyce We are in a position where we always have to change more players than we really want to and that brings a lot of instability and makes your job so much harder than it should be, because players come and go almost at the drop of the hat. – Sam Allardyce
BeautyVirginia Woolf The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf
Adam CurtisFitness At the end of the nineteenth century, a fanatical craze for physical fitness swept through Britain. Millions of men and women took up gymnastics, body building, and other physical exercises. Such a thing had never happened before, and it was given a name – Physical Culture. – Adam Curtis
Dick Dale You shouldn’t even be writing this story if you haven’t heard me play live. You can’t write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert. – Dick Dale
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