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Henry Petroski Quotes

«Surveying and engineering were quite close back then.»
«So it's ironic that he was only a one-term president, largely because of the Great Depression, and people complained that he wasn't doing enough. And yet he really had all the capabilities of carrying on a relief effort for America the same way he did in Europe, but he just wasn't given enough time.»
«It shows that if we forget the history of the technology we're working in, we can be taken by surprise.»