The Evolution of Useful Things A Book by Henry Petroski Here, then, is the central idea: the form of made things is always subject to change in response to their real or perceived shortcomings, their failures to function properly. This principle governs all invention, innovation, ingenuity. Spike and sponShaped and reshapedForm follows failureTheir wrongness is somehow more immediateA small corner of the world of things+23 More The evolution of devices formfunctioninventionprogressfailure
Composition and revision Revise at the point of composition. Compose at the point of revision. Think of composition and revision as the same thing. Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing 104. Site Repair design