"These things are complicated, and they involve a lot of people, and you never quite know where they went wrong, (...) A building goes together with seven billi

"These things are complicated, and they involve a lot of people, and you never quite know where they went wrong, (...) A building goes together with seven billion pieces of connective tissue. The chances of it getting done ever without something colliding or some misstep are small." That's a blatant lie. Civil engineering it is a precise discipline and a margin of error it's always part of the calculations. Sloppy structural analysis? Bad materials? The contractor didn't follow the specifications? You can know exactly what went wrong.