The engineers of the future will be poets.
Interpretation
Future engineers will blend technical skills with creativity and artistry.
This quote by Terence McKenna suggests that the future of engineering will not solely rely on technical knowledge but will also require creativity and the ability to express ideas artistically. It emphasizes the integration of science and art, where engineers will be seen as creative thinkers who design not only functional products but also those that resonate with human emotions and aesthetics.
In practice
In a lecture on the importance of interdisciplinary learning, one might quote this to inspire students.
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
You can't lead a true life without suffering
Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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