Engineers do not particularly like PR men.

Mathematicians look down on Physicists, who look down on Engineers, who look down on Designers. And Designers look down on everyone.

Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.

He's not even a mad scientist. He's merely a very upset engineer.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.

Number of engineers - like number of artists, number of scientists, number of thinkers - is a completely useless metric.

people are focused on the money and not focused on being smart.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Nerds are used to transparency. They add value by becoming expert at a technical skill like computer programming. In engineering disciplines, a solution either works or it fails. You can evaluate someone else’s work with relative ease, as surface appearances don’t matter much. Sales is the opposite: an orchestrated campaign to change surface appearances without changing the underlying reality. This strikes engineers as trivial if not fundamentally dishonest. They know their own jobs are hard, so when they look at salespeople laughing on the phone with a customer or going to two-hour lunches, they suspect that no real work is being done. If anything, people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious. What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy. SALES

"For geniuses, they are really dumb," she said. "Some of them are really pampered: They can't even put together a cardboard box. They don't think you do something. They think you call somebody."

Engineers are dangerous because they’re obsessed by facts and you can’t divert them or buy them off.

There's no glamour in infrastructure," he said as he filled our glasses again. "Steve and wee little William, right? They make stuff everyone uses every day but nobody thinks about the plumbing until it goes wrong.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Too many are interested in “tech” (by which they mean money) but they aren’t interested in tech (by which I mean math).