engineer's disease

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bias of technical professionals who think that their expertise allows them to solve problems in unrelated fields. uncountable
    — The idea of “engineer’s disease” developed while I (Graham) was talking with a crew of project managers. I was talking about Legionnaires’ disease, and they thought I said “engineer’s disease.”
  2. A tendency for engineers to be protective and perfectionist about their work. uncountable
    — Revealing the workings of a machine, without disclosing what the machine does, is a classic symptom of engineer’s disease.
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