Even with an unlimited budget and unlimited time, the difference between good and bad engineering is that a bad engineer won't know where to apply their talents

Even with an unlimited budget and unlimited time, the difference between good and bad engineering is that a bad engineer won't know where to apply their talents to ensure things won't go wrong in the future. While every discipline in the world is bound by budget and time constraints (even an armchair philosopher has a limited lifespan), that doesn't change the essence of the discipline itself. I think of engineering not just as designing and building things, but also knowing where the limitations are of the thing you're constructing, whether it's purely on paper, in a computer's memory, or from brick and mortar.