> an engineer is someone working on something they know everything about.
That seems completely contrary to my engineering training. The engineer motto is about "be prepared for the unexpected" i.e. escape hatches, manual override, overprovisioning, assume that your temporary "train", "power plant", "airplane" will be in service for 40 years instead of 20, make it serviceable even without infrastructure.
I think we're saying the same thing and I just butchered the original quote. having checklists of everything that could go wrong, real and imagined, with senses of probabilities, I would consider "knowing everything about". Or maybe its "knowing what you dont know".
That seems completely contrary to my engineering training. The engineer motto is about "be prepared for the unexpected" i.e. escape hatches, manual override, overprovisioning, assume that your temporary "train", "power plant", "airplane" will be in service for 40 years instead of 20, make it serviceable even without infrastructure.