Re: Artists and Engineers

Ian Goddard (igoddard@erols.com)
Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:12:09 -0400


At 08:09 PM 10/26/96 UT, David Musick wrote:

> ...engineers ARE artists.

IAN: Where an "artist" is: one who manipulates physical
matter or "data" in some fashion deemed to be "skillful"
or "esthetically pleasing" by some subjective observer. I
can see no better definition, thus I say your claim is true.

Even a "con artist" is an artist to the extent that he is
able to manipulate physical matter in some fashion someone
thinks is "skillful or "esthetically pleasing."

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