Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

There will be no new arcadian age. There will always be new burdens, new problems, new failures, new beginnings. And the glory of man is to respond to his harsh fate with zest and ever-renewed effort.

We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.