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I saw a quote recently along the lines of "a scientist is someone working on something they know nothing about; an engineer is someone working on something they
by breck 6y ago
I saw a quote recently along the lines of "a scientist is someone working on something they know nothing about; an engineer is someone working on something they know everything about." I think the project started out as a science project and is moving the direction of an engineering project. A totally outside perspective—I haven't checked it out in a while.
- mratsim 6y ago> an engineer is someone working on something they know everything about. That seems completely contrary to my engineering training. The engineer motto is about "be prepared for the unexpected" i.e. escape hatches, manual override, overprovisioning, assume that your temporary "train", "power plant", "airplane" will be in service for 40 years instead of 20, make it serviceable even without infrastructure.
- breck 6y agoI think we're saying the same thing and I just butchered the original quote. having checklists of everything that could go wrong, real and imagined, with senses of probabilities, I would consider "knowing everything about". Or maybe its "knowing what you dont know".