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“Enganam-se, portanto, os que supõem que o poder da ação se reduz aos atos físicos visíveis. Pensar é agir, falar é movimentar forças vivas, de conseqüências por vezes inimagináveis. Compor um artigo, uma carta, um poema ou uma música, produzir um som ou simplesmente divagar idéias, tudo isso é atuar, agir, fazer, emitir e captar forças, agregar e desagregar formas mentais, participar da economia da vida, seja para o bem, ou seja, para o mal. Nem tudo o que fazemos num plano repercute visivelmente, de imediato, noutro plano, mas ninguém se engane quanto à natureza das forças vivas que alguém move quando anseia, deseja ou quer seja o que for, porque a vida, através dos mecanismos automáticos de sua justiça, jamais deixará de entregar-nos o resultado de nossas ações, ainda que sejam ações apenas mentais, pois a mente é que comanda a vida.”

“Engels’ Conditions in Germany, one of his early works, contains an excellent pen-portrait of this king. ‘The Kingdom of Prussia […] was then governed by Frederick William III, nicknamed The Just, one of the greatest blockheads to ever grace a throne. Born to be a corporal and to inspect the buttons of an army; dissolute, without passion, and a morality-monger”

“Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organizing forces of technological change ... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.”

“Engineers ... are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others.”

“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.”