Regardless of workflow, software engineers are all the time working with non-tangible, abstract, and flexible things -- pure mindware.

不管工作流程如何，软件设计者终日从事于无形的、抽象的和灵活的事物——纯智力劳动。

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Abstract: : the quality of higher engineering education directly determines the quality of the quality of engineers in China.

摘要：高等工程教育的质量直接决定着我国未来工程师的质量。

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Eventually, engineers will work entirely in the abstract world of forms emerging only for the unpleasant, if necessary, duty of turning them into things tangible enough for people to buy.

ECONOMIST: Manufacturing technology