A Quote by Henry Petroski

Form follows failure.

Henry Petroski

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Failure Follows Form

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Henry Petroski
American - Author
Born: February 6, 1942

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Oscar Niemeyer

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

Oscar Niemeyer

Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

Erik Adigard

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

We've been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that's true?

Stephen J. Dubner

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Shelby Steele

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Emile Chartier

Growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.

Charles F. Haanel

The form follows the function.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan

Form follows beauty.

Oscar Niemeyer

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.