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by helpPeople 2394 days ago
Wait... The computer scientist is not an engineer.
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Exactly. Use an engineer for an engineering problem.

Mark Twain wrote, "An engineer is a [person] who can do for a dime what any damn fool can do for a dollar." Adjusting for inflation, the engineer can do for a million dollars what any damn fool can do for a billion.