Cynicism among engineers isn’t a character flaw. It is key to their strength. And for the Dilbert view. . .

Cynicism reigns! “I will worship no more false [optimists].” – misquote of The Tempest’s Caliban [actually, the misquote started as a pure misquote in a 12th grade English paper – a paper explaining/reference a quote that apparently doesn’t exist in The Tempest, by Caliban or any other character. Hey, it was an in-class writing where we couldn’t reference the play – not an intentional whole-cloth misrepresentation of the play]

[My apologies for the mild incoherence of this entry. . . Too much caffeine already.]