>This is delightful writing: Indeed. JFYI, a great structural engineer I knew used to have a saying that can be roughly translated as "Thank goodness materia

>This is delightful writing: Indeed. JFYI, a great structural engineer I knew used to have a saying that can be roughly translated as "Thank goodness materials do not read construction theory books: walls and bridges, despite the ignorance of the engineers that calculated them, and of the people that built them, keep obstinately standing up, totally oblivious of their errors".