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| An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true. | |
| George Orwell was an optimist. | |
| Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else. (Eagleson is an optimist, the real number is more like three weeks.) | |
| O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist. | |
| optimist, n.: A proponent of the belief that black is white. A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something -- the mortality of the optimist." -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" | |
| optimist, n: A bagpiper with a beeper. | |
| pessimist: A man who spends all his time worrying about how he can keep the wolf from the door. optimist: A man who refuses to see the wolf until he seizes the seat of his pants. opportunist: A man who invites the wolf in and appears the next day in a fur coat. | |
| A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. -- Elbert Hubbard | |
| An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. -- Don Marquis | |
| I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -- Winston Churchill | |
| It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised. | |
| Murphy was an optimist. | |
| The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists" | |
| Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Cabell, "The Silver Stallion" | |
