“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”
Everyone’s life is different and everyone has their own unique way of seeing the world. Some people are artistic, some are scientific, others yet are just confused…
I consider myself privileged to be among the engineering population – a walk of life unlike any other. The ability to look at a problem or situation with a completely unbiased mindset and child-like wonder with no preconceived notions is a challenge in itself, but then to also have the capacity to generate and clearly present absolutely unique thoughts and ideas on the subject – weed out the weak ideas and develop the strong ideas – combine the best elements of completely different ideas and then implement one or more refined and complete solutions is an absolute marvel of humankind. As engineers we have the ability to wake up every single morning knowing that our lives can be made just a little bit better by the time we hit the pillow that night. We’re privileged to have developed the confidence to come into a foreign situation knowing that solutions can be found and improvements can be conceived from nothing but thin air.
Today, we have the increasingly vast technology to assist us in so many ways
along the path of engineering and product design, but without the incredible
gift of the analytical human mind we would never even have made it as far the stone age.
“Engineering – The evolution of evolution.”
-Tim Johnson
