# Mind and Hand

DevFeed: [Mind and Hand](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mind-and-hand-28408.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eaf4.com/mind-and-hand/>)

Author: Edward Faulkner

Published: 2017-09-18T15:38:02Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Edward Faulkner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/edward-faulkner.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/science.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

An essay examines MIT's "Mens et Manus" motto, arguing that knowing and doing are equally important. It applies this idea to software, where understanding requirements and building software inform each other, and remembers Paul Gray as an example of hands-on leadership and teaching.

## Source excerpt

"Mens et Manus" (latin for "Mind and Hand") is the official motto of MIT. Lots of schools have Latin mottoes, and they are usually pretty bland. But mens et manus was -- and still is -- a radical social statement. It says that knowing and doing