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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by ythl on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:48AM (#12788913)
> there is only a balancing of time, money, reliability, reusability and other purely mathematical concepts

And therein lies the art. An experienced engineer can come up with simple, elegant solutions that balance those things. Novice engineers struggle to find a good balance and tend to over-complicate the solution.

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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by AndrewDucker on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:51AM (#12788944)
That's not art. That's craft.
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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by bholzer on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:58AM (#12789000)
Is art not a craft?
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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by hasbroslasher on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:11PM (#12789110)
Art and craft are different - art implies some semantic depth or statement about society.

Crafts are things like coffee mugs or portraits - they require immense skill and can only benefit from creativity, but don't really have anything to say about anything. That doesn't mean they're not good or valuable, though.

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