Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.