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“As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.”

“Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.”

Source: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.”

Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

“The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.”

Humans Important Problem Design Safety Errors Aviation Human Error Aerospace

Author:Jerome F. Lederer

“The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.”

Way Needs Design Safety Bridges Thank God Airplane Engineering Margins Accounting

Author:Charlie Munger

“Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty, safety, stability, and responsibility - that every person will attain his real worth and the true dignity of his being. It is only under this law of justice that mankind will achieve - slowly, no doubt, but certainly - God's design for the orderly and peaceful progress of humanity.”

Persons Real Law Humanity Peace Justice Responsibility Liberty Doubt Progress Influence Achieve Mankind Design Dignity Safety Peaceful No Doubt Stability Reign Orderly

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“When I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design. At that time, it was all blamed on a "nut behind the wheel," so-called, the driver. But I knew that the vehicle had a great deal to do with that because I had come across some Air Force-sponsored studies at medical schools. The Air Force found they were losing more men on the highways than in the Korean War.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Home Design Huge Drink Safety Burden Carrie Spiders Silk Food And Drink

Author:A. S. Byatt

“Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.”

Children Home Parent Teacher Information Danger Design Internet Unique Resources Safety Trade Legislation Surfing Publish Website Surfing The Internet

Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.”

Way Doe Science Design Comfortable Safety Users Belts Design Work

Author:Nils Bohlin

“When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!”

Ifs Thinking Feels Firsts Design Safety Safety First

Author:Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.

“The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.”

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Author:John Hoeven