"…also my co-workers have served as correction coefficients for my vision of the world. I think that’s the term (whose exact meaning I obviously don’t know) for the treatment given by engineers to mathematics so that it can be applied to life. If it is the right term, then that’s what I meant. If it isn’t, then let’s imagine that it could be, the intention substituting for the failed metaphor."
--Fernando PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet
--Fernando PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet
