I took a try at a theory of this: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-do-engineers-become-terrorists.html http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/09/

I took a try at a theory of this: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-do-engineers-become-terrorists.html http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-do-engineers-... Short summary: it's due to the historical intermediate and uncertain class status of engineering as a profession.