"When an Engineer feels a sense of mission,
he will inevitably experience a great deal of resistance to his purpose. If he
wants to build for the people, he must understand from the outset that he has a
bitter struggle ahead of him. He will meet many technical and artistic problems
that will call for all his training and skills. But surmounting such problems
is exciting and spiritually rewarding, it is like
climbing a mountain, but presumably because he likes tackling such difficulties
that he ever became an engineer at all. But there are other obstacles in his
path besides the straight forward technical and artistic ones, obstacles that
will make him doubt even his most fundamental beliefs. As his engineering sense
drives him through clear logic to more and more radical solutions, he will find
treacherous feelings in himself that tempt him to give up his mission and
conform to the general practice in Engineering."
Adama Samba
Civil & Structural Engineer