Every engineer in this hall, designing those nanotechnological toasters 
and hair dryers, wished he could have Hackworth's job in Bespoke, where 
concinnity was an end in itself, where no atom was wasted and every subsystem 
was designed specifically for the task at hand. Such work demanded intuition 
and creativity, qualities neither abundant nor encouraged here in Merkle Hall. 
But from time to time, over golf or karaoke or cigars, Däurig or one of 
the other supervisors would mention some youngster who showed promise.