What made you want to study breaking things?

Question: What made you want to study breaking things?
- Keywords:
  break,
  inspiration,
  research
Asked by Gandy to David on 17 Nov 2014.
- David Taylor answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  It was one of the courses at university that I liked: the strength and fracture of materials. I had a good professor for that course who was very inspiring. And then I got the chance to work for that professor, doing research projects. I found I was pretty good at it.

Question: What made you want to study breaking things?