GAME OF ENGINEERING
KARL TERZAGHI
1. Engineering is a noble sport which calls for good sportsmanship. Occasionally blundering is part the game. Let it be your ambition to be first one to discover and announce your blunders. If somebody else gets ahead of you, take it with a smile and thank him for this interest. Once you begin to feel tempted to deny your blunders in the face of reasonable evidence you have ceased to be a good sport. You are already a crank or a grouch.
2. The worst habit you can possibly acquire is to become uncritical towards your own concepts and at the same time skeptical towards those of others. Once you arrive at that state you are in the grip of senility, regardless of your age.
3. When you commit one of your ideas to print, emphasize every controversial aspect of your thesis which you can perceive. Thus you win the respect of your readers and are kept aware of the possibilities for further improvement. A departure from this rule is the safest way to wreck your reputation and to paralyze your mental activities.
4. Very few people are either so dump or so dishonest that you could not learn anything from them.
KARL TERZAGHI
1. Engineering is a noble sport which calls for good sportsmanship. Occasionally blundering is part the game. Let it be your ambition to be first one to discover and announce your blunders. If somebody else gets ahead of you, take it with a smile and thank him for this interest. Once you begin to feel tempted to deny your blunders in the face of reasonable evidence you have ceased to be a good sport. You are already a crank or a grouch.
2. The worst habit you can possibly acquire is to become uncritical towards your own concepts and at the same time skeptical towards those of others. Once you arrive at that state you are in the grip of senility, regardless of your age.
3. When you commit one of your ideas to print, emphasize every controversial aspect of your thesis which you can perceive. Thus you win the respect of your readers and are kept aware of the possibilities for further improvement. A departure from this rule is the safest way to wreck your reputation and to paralyze your mental activities.
4. Very few people are either so dump or so dishonest that you could not learn anything from them.
-adopted from "Engineering Judgement"
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