Quotes from Samuel Florman

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.