The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.