re: What Engineers Can Learn From Steve Jobs

Austin S. Lin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:30:13 GMT

Thanks for your comment, Bill. Absolutely agree--the model of the brain itself is a symbol in and of itself--while one's neurological process may drift from right to left brained thinking, the brain still functions as one continuous whole. The "partitions" between the humanities and the sciences are our own creations. Pink references how the traditionally deemed artistic thoughts are just as relevant in the engineering sciences as they are in those disciplines more commonly perceived as being pure creative arts.

Or to summon one of my favorite sciences-and-the-arts-as-one quotes by Norton Juster in the children's book The Phantom Tollbooth:

"Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other, woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars."

re: What Engineers Can Learn From Steve Jobs

Bill Turner — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:43:52 GMT

One should only read Daniel Pink's "A Whole New Mind" to additionally understand how engineering should develop in the right brain of the enginner, as well as the left brain. In today's world, engineering without are, is really no engineering.

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