Allowable Stress Design

Famous quotes containing the words allowable, stress and/or design:

“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.”
—Agnes Repplier (1858–1950)

“I begin with a design for a hearse.
For Christ’s sake not black—
nor white either—and not polished!
Let it be weathered—like a farm wagon—”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)