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To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petroski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfJ0EkrXqg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfJ0EkrXqg And/or anything else by Petroski
by sixtofour 15y ago
To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petroski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfJ0EkrXqg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfJ0EkrXqg
And/or anything else by Petroski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Petroski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Petroski
Systemantics, by John Gall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
"27. The Fail-Safe Theorem: When a Fail-Safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe."
Someone will inevitably suggest Brooks' Mythical Man Month to a young technologist, so I'll leave that suggestion to that person in this young technologist's career.