>> Engineers are people that take existing practice and solve problems that other people are having in a way that is better than the previous solution.

Hey, thanks for this, I'm going to have to write it down somewhere.

Hopefully my calling attention to it doesn't result in a dogpile of "That's not what 'engineer' means", because the reason I call it out is that it's what I'm usually trying to say when I use the word 'engineer'.