To the optimist, the glass is half-full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
To the philosopher, why does the glass have to exist in the first place? Interesting post.
Cut the philosophy and pour the beer, got any pretzels?
To the realist the glass is broken, keep it ril, buy a new glass.
And to the physicist it is in stable equilibrium
As a volumetric problem solver, your engineer would be fired immediately. A real engineer would say that the glass is approximately 1.25992 times too large.