Engineers are responsible for translating scientific and technological advances into useful and beneficial products. Our role in engineering is to help shape the development of civilization in accordance with the highest ethical and moral principle. We need to focus on that role in forging our worldview, in developing tangible and intangible products, and everything else that we do. In other words, we need to acquire and assert formative knowledge responsively and with a strong sense of purpose.
We can reinforce our commitment to fulfilling our goals by taking pride in our works without being succumbing to vanity, by being confident without succumbing to conceit. We can fuel our commitment with insights available in such classics.