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James Clear
“Forget about goals, focus on systems instead.”
James Clear

“When a structure fails or seems in danger of failing the natural instinct of the engineer may be to specify the use of a ‘stronger’ material: in the case of steel, what is known as a ‘higher tensile’ steel. With large structures this is generally a mistake, for it is clear that most of the strength, even of mild steel, is not really being used. This is because, as we have seen, the failure of a structure may be controlled, not by the strength, but by the brittleness of the material. [...] the toughness of most metals is undoubtedly reduced very greatly as the tensile strength increases.”
J.E. Gordon, [(Structuresor Why Things Don T Fall Down)] [Edited by J Gordon] published on

“What we find difficult about mathematics is the formal, symbolic presentation of the subject by pedagogues with a taste for dogma, sadism and incomprehensible squiggles.”
J.E. Gordon

“To make strong structures without the benefit of metals requires an instinct for the distribution and direction of stresses which is by no means always possessed by modern engineers; for the use of metals, which are so conveniently tough and uniform, has taken some of the intuition and also some of the thinking out of engineering.”
J.E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

“Strength is not the same thing as stiffness.
To quote from The New Science of Strong Materials: ‘A biscuit is stiff but weak, steel is stiff and strong, nylon is flexible (low E) and strong, raspberry jelly is flexible (low E) and weak. The two properties together describe a solid about as well as you can reasonably expect two figures to do.”
J.E. Gordon, [(Structuresor Why Things Don T Fall Down)] [Edited by J Gordon] published on

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