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Happy Birthday Karl Terzaghi!

Written by Randy Post
Tuesday, 02 October 2007
I got an email from my fellow geo-webmaster at Dan Brown and Associates, Robert Thompson wishing me and his other geotechnical colleagues a "Happy Karl Terzaghi's Birthday!" so I thought I would pass it on to all of my GeoPrac.net visitors. (Photo from Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering) I particularlly enjoyed Robert's link to a collection of Terzaghi's quotes compiled by another geo-webmaster, Dimitris Zeccos at the Geoengineer.org. Thanks for the email Robert. Below is one of my favorite quotes. Karl von Terzaghi (October 2, 1883 – October 25, 1963) … Any attempt to stop the settlement without making the proposed preliminary investigation would be an irresponsible gamble. Since I have witnessed many gambles of this kind I can state from personal experience that the savings associate with inadequate preliminary investigations are entirely out of proportion to the financial risks. Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Show/Hide comment form Name Email Title Comment Write the displayed characters
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